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L- THE BEST PAPER in G- R. E E 1ST E LARGEST CIRCULATION. TERMS Per Year, in Advance. GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER NO. The Eastern Reflector, GREENVILLE, N. C. E J. THE LEADING PAPER IN THE LATELY TO Subscription Price, per year . DEMOCRATIC, BUT will not hesitate to Democratic men and measures that are not consistent with the true principles of the party. If you want a a wide-a-wake eel ii n, of State send for the or. CT SAMPLE COPY FREE STATE GOVERNMENT. If red M. Scales, of M. man. of New Hanover. Secretary of of Wake. of Wake. P. Roberts, of Gates. Superintendent of Public Instruction Sidney M. Finder of Attorney F. David- Mn, of Buncombe. SUPREME COURT. Chief N. H. Smith, of Wake. Associate S. Ashe. of Anson ; Augustus S. Merrimon. of Wake. JUDGES SUPERIOR COURT. I J- Stop, young maiden, in the race For pleasures fleeting charms. That perish ere they are won. And leave for thee no smiling trace. To tell thee they are gone Seek thou that priceless bliss Of a world more than this. Stop gay youth in the pursuit. Of Folly's dear-bought Joys; She smiles deceitful, to allure; She gives sweet flowers, but the fruit. When all the ; Seek thou the joys that rise. Upon the eyes in Paradise. Woman, pause the world give No return for toil; But for a short, swift, flying To mock us while we live. Now try to find the peaceful way, Where all is happiness and love. Like unto that coming from Above. Strong man desist from weary care. Plan no more for and power; They vanish like the dews of morn, And leave the heart dry and sere And the days drear and forlorn. Seek, seek for the flowers that bloom In the beyond the tomb. were they sure he was starving, could they see him, was his miser- able case placed exactly beneath benevolent noses, would, I have given him sufficient to keep him in clover the rest of his lite. Bat then it takes so long to bring these miserable the noses of the benevolent ones, that myriads die whilst Hie at- tempt is being made, and only one out of the many It seemed to him that he mast have dozed awhile, us when next bis dim eyes looked with discern- upon the world, the dark- to. the famished boy that he fainted at the eight of then For a let his feast itself upon the rich display and then slowly open ed his dirty, emaciated little hand to look a the talisman that give him bra share of the of night was falling. The that sixpence at the same moment. Letter Georgia. rapidly than do the streams in North Carolina. I was told Dawson Ga., Nov. 7th 1387. the Chattahoochee rose us Editor Reflector twenty-five feet in one day and My time for the past two weeks, night the rains last sum- or since my last letter, has Take this fact into consul- taken op with and also another, that the j ting different towns in this j banks of the river are very steep, things he craved. His silver or Georgia. I have found a being from fifty to one hundred lay upon his palm, and deal to interest and fifty feet higher than the low child's eyes grew bright again, half but have fail- jet to find a water mark, and one can readily conquering the death sleep clever and hospitable people see that such a vast volume of had so nearly closed them only j or a finer section of country than towing a narrow now, aB he stared at it. A whole, whole sixpence Alas two other eyes beheld For the Reflector. What Should be the Ideal of a Nation. The chief object of many has been to obtain glory. They have fought like bubble toss- in the wind for a considerable length of time, and did seem as if their object was obtained. But the nation MEG GOOD NEWS FOR A J he nation that et rives for glory is OUR a o -the-wisp that flutters, for a while in the breeze and then found in and around channel is bound to produce a very , h In fact, this is; the best place I rapid and dangerous Ah- have gone have yet found in Georgia, and it However the water was low when d h , M -f is with a feeing of regret I, I the river, the night a on the IS READY. too, was heavier, and through A great; rough, villainous looking realize that in a few days I must beautiful moonlight one, and I it the lamps that lit the wretched where lie crouched with a lurid light. The little dog was dead, but the child did not know it. I always glad to think he did not i know it. He held it still fondly, clasped to his breast, i the body was yet warm it did not dawn upon his dulled mind that life was gone from it. He sat still, his head droop- somewhat forward, and one could see that his face have creature, halt boy, half man, peer- leave for other fields. My stay no danger whatever of fame. Others have been Let the People Rejoice to Such Wonderful gone Poor Jerry A sensation as of a the Old State, then I know of no seek either in vain, tor scarcely should deadly chill ran through him, and better home for them than can bad my head touched the pillow i. . . for a moment he reeled heavily j found Hi this county. against the bars of the window. But alter that it seemed to him that he thought no more of it, be gave in, and though not conscious be a lesson But I seem ere lost in a dream- i u have never had such an elegant i of fine, latest style D Goods, buttons a n been pretty but for the stamp of j of the fact, quietly surrendered death present and of misery, now I himself to death. It was all over. can people , , , . mad over the subject of money, i to give a short sketch of my wan-, eyes ere I was and told . stranger the first hat we we in sigh my ,. j Ala. The m as if the have gone rampant filings to match. He was starving i Not hungry nearly passed, that disfigured it. No hope, no was left the good county in which they gnawing feeling within him, a young man came swing- down the dingy young man, gaunt to emaciation, with hollow cheeks and deep set as you or might be, had we fast- ed for ten or hours at a stretch, but literally dying for want of food. He lay back in the dingy door-way exhausted, half Shepherd, of unconscious, his one friend clasped Beaufort. to his breast. His face was dirty, Second Philips, of of a leaden hue, the pale eyes, and altogether a face i ,,. h. were as the I of famine. It was not a good Heavily fell the rain upon the of darkening street ; the chill, bitter fog of the December night grew momentarily deeper, and through it the raindrops pushed their way By and by, as he still sat there j Perhaps, indeed, he scarcely knew live, and while I could truthfully faint and sick because of the things went with him for i say both desist or this have forgotten the object restful slumber. And it , at when I began this letter-ed fiat hardly closed Our stock of Sh . . s Boots was nevi is the the f gold in house Instead of, on , Ai l-Hos he a good moral and religious , aS it character If he has them both i IS. the past two have started out in an article the people of this town and i purple, and his hands were as It was not a Third G. Connor, of Mil- The claws some untamed I line here and there in curves round the thin lips, a mock Clark, A. Gilmer, on Wake. Fifth Sixth Sampson. Seventh C. Cumberland. awhile, but instinct at least led his j letter too long for dying footsteps hack to the horrible your columns, loathsome cellar in the my subject I will say squalid court. With faltering that two weeks ago to-day I board- feet, with a dull stupid despair up- tram here sage in one to leave shipboard in another. I reached about half past eleven o'clock at night, and was driven to the St. tor room and rest This is a house and is kept by Maj. and, after a ride W-H. of Washington, on half dead face, with the a over two boon arrived D- clerk is a Dawson boy If he has them both he is all right of course. A Na- is only an aggregate of her sons. If they are minded who their duty latest Styles and nation is all i In Hats we have now cold and stiff puppy pressed at Fort the county seat of to his heart, he descended the; Clay county. The rule was devoid stone steps, and like a wild thing j interest, and only one or two stricken sore, sought his lair. things will make memorable to light in the eyes, a matured i Inside all was still, all was dark. I correspondent. Fort Gaines expression of scorn towards the J A horrible silence very on a branch of the Rail- world general. He looked as if j blackness of darkness that might Tarboro and Scotland sluggishly. Jerry, lying in he were always carrying on a bit- be felt, lie began to be frighten- Neck on the W. Eighth j. i shade of the door- j warfare with his kind. ed, horribly frightened. He put road is the roughest and j way scarcely heeded ho the His clothes were threadbare, hie the dog down and pressed the bumpiest I have found in the State, i J see I dais poured down upon F- moisture came that saturated shocking. Beneath his of his hands ft reminds me very much of the having minutes the mad wretched rags that his i he hugged a handful of shabby against his eyeballs that he might Washington Jamesville morning after frame books as if his very soul ; not see the shapes of being a little better than that. I writing a letter home, donated M. of j For two long days no food had he would have scorned a belief in which the dread gloom seemed full. J however. I arrived at the town a at the n Merrimon passed his The deadly was centered on shapes that ever just before and town. And I was well quarters and getting my I what The place bears per, proceeded to become know and do it, the right, but just so as her sons beat the grow tat and proud that they will not bow their head the Supreme Being that rules m p a most clever I am speaking of hotels let digress long enough to say the , verse, then they will surely that no town its size the whole j ft on J country can beat Dawson in the , excellence of its inns. are mt ,, and three here every one of them ,,., f, of MUS he A word them and know whereof speak. , Goths d y A visit to our will convince you x f Buncombe. that had seized on him a fortnight indeed it was. A student ever, and drew nearer, and re ago. whilst with him. had killed ; out at elbows, penniless touched him as he B. Vance, of Meek- the sense of hunger, but yesterday I what have we here times his hair, and now Matt. W. Ransom, of him, just at the break said abruptly before and with its had the half insensible boy and poking House of District us j r Louis c. Latham, of Pitt come a wild craving for food of i him with his stick. And then the harsh racking every mark of a prosperous, Me-; mg town, and has a number of fine but , sun It being of no in toe Bay of some price in order I them from from the make room for mountains and bowed among them like a tree in a storm and thus re maS Goods. the country to scorn and contempt. Spain armed herself, with blood-hounds to extirpate ed with some of the people and to their as to insurance. Among the first men I met, and X could not form any idea , than the to and wealth Second M. Simmons, any sort Wearily he J. Green, of h Cumberland. the miserable pillow damp Fourth R. Cox, of j sacking that supported it to ask feeble tones for drink, for meat, dull eyes and turned ti j to press them to that side where It the pain-was most cruel ; bat he starveling Come, speak child ; what ails you, eh his little frame so roughly Roused by this rude address and j its rude grasp that he had to dreading all things, Jerry lifted take down his hands from his eyes cough that had been his for a a most clever business down there. I was Armada on the rocky twelvemonth caught hit. Greenbacks saved buying from the LEADERS Fifth W. of Rock- i to find himself in that Sixth T. Bennett, of I cellar . , It was a horrible shock to the S. Henderson, ,.,,,,,, of Rowan. child, lie had lam unconscious Eighth H. H. Cowles, j caught by the fever's deadly clutch, Ninth D. Johnston, Buncombe. whilst the woman with whom he long, blows had been his portion. ant smile upon his questioner. was a woeful little smile, entreat- kept his eyes fast closed lest imploring and openly be should see these weird awful the blow that he so plainly creatures dancing and there expected. AH his poor little life i in the obscurity. GOVERNMENT. Superior Court A. Move. M. King. Register of H. Wilson. B. Cherry. S. Congleton. P. Redding. Commissioners-Council Dawson. Chair- Guilford Mooring. J. A. K. Tucker, W. A. James, Jr., T. E. Keel. Public School Latham. of F. W. Brown. TOWN. J. Perkins. C. Forbes. He was cold He shiv and shook with terror, and with something last dread icy chill that every moment crept closer and closer to his heart. And after awhile he sat down and had lived ever since he could re I said the evil looking member anything had succumbed j young man with a sinister smile, to that same fever's influence, and eh I was right, had died and been buried. A mis- i He stared at the child as if mus- drunken creature, in a way before one, lies a dis- kind to him when sober, brutal to j atom of the vast mysterious i him when gin overpowered her, whole. Here, too, lies a striking but as she was, the only protector, example of the absolute truthful- he knew. Whether she was his that charming little fable mother, or whether fate had just so sweet to the well fed good drifted him into her path the child man's ear. The divine mercy never knew-, but the sense everlasting love that will not she him knew . his in the early gloom of that win-; I av is an admirable illustration such as you and I have finely located ; has fine fa morning, when his parched M woodcut, lot us say, an in- yet seen, had cried aloud without j significant with a glance One and of the few clever men I net that the amount done was of England. Does this m Fort Gaines, was a native North, immense, and judging from the j ca the Carolinian, whose brother is well cotton I saw at the depot, and to known to many of your readers. I near the should ; Docs this the words The gentleman is a Mr. information was not j that. uttered to is brother to Mr. W. p. I greatly exaggerated. if the Kings of the Ab-I of Washington. I also at . and Peruvians have any gold met another Carolinian here, a Mr. Edwards, who left Greene more than two hours I arrived-at a few years ago, and had j feeling almost like I was long talk with him. lie- j home, and being ranch sides these two parties and a pleased to get back here. I to- others, whose acquaintance ate Tuesday of last week, when I again took a flying OF LOW PRICE et them bring it to me, for I my brothers of Spain have a ease at the heart that gold i When men have no higher motive in life than to accumulate all the gold they can get, they are no more than brutes, A ex- made and who us cleverly. I have very little to say in regard trip oft, taking in portions of of the history of . to Fort Gaines and its I i counties. I will surely convince us let himself fall quietly backwards , remained there for nearly a three days in of , lot until his poor tired head lay upon j but as it rained every day while I i a small town Randolph ; the amount of gold and the damp pavement He put out j rM the town and as I was that is in the treasury hut in a feeble hand, and finding the unwell while there, I expect is not. than on dead dog, mechanically drew it my opinion of the place is rather of Games, b its abundance live nearer to him. And then a wonderful thing opinion place is rather or Raines, out; one-sided. At any rate I i fr t as n point. glad to leave there, and did so j And all the people I met there, energetic, g men. was lost to him forever filled so much as one sparrow fall to happened. All at once the soon H I possibly could arrange j men, citizens and farmers For the with an awful dread. He the ground to which the little it seemed to him, grew full business satisfactorily. The are lever, courteous and polite. A Word for w it when no voice answered , ores are so especial dear Here, light. A light, strange, awful mar-, town of Fort Gaines is an old one I read in the that And in it stood B. Cherry Ales. tongue Ward. T. A. Wills j response. When he had dragged at the miserably shrunken little A most figure Truth is a precious gem; Its cannot, be estimated. Card M. GREENVILLE, N. AUG. C M BERNARD, W, C. Practice in the State and Federal O snow fell in Greenville last Mom for freight, both i , a and water, has considerable back the are all going barefoot, H youth has been lost in society by MI Tall, a from which to draw trade it has not been cold foolishly throwing ft away and J H TUCKER J MUS a his to the pallet of the child at his feet. He little bowed and clad in a long ad should be a thriving and pros-; enough yet to kill the potato vines; equivocation, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, m j. h. smith, 3rd w art, a. m. , . . J . ,. t i . r . the leaves on the China Moore and J. J. Cherry. CHURCHES. First and she used to lie and found she was no longer there, weak as he and crushed by this sudden morning and night. his own D. D., Rector. bed, and with nervous, feverish laughed aloud ; a laugh that cut garment, than which no snow fresh-1 place. like a on of cold, cruel steel into fallen was ever half so white me as Instead place impress-1 fallen was ever half so white me as place of are busy the heart of the cowering boy. I And the shall tell the i business, the had a dead cane and boiling Was the blow coming now ; divine fairness it j and very little seemed die if you don't look; Little Jerry could not have to be going on. True, as stated above, it rained nearly all the hands there for something I said the strange man after i scribed it then, but as he gazed on every lie could another prolonged glance at he knew all at once the fullest Wednesday Rev. F. A. Bishop. , a b- followed by a shrug. He thrust I meaning the words and Baptist-Services every Sunday, morn- bing fashion, and at last, languidly, his hand into his pocket tag night. Prayer a tiny shaggy soft thing crept to brought out three coppers and a night. Rev. J. W. J J hie with six penny bit. catch the puppy, only and most pas- said he, chucking the sixpence to prized possession in his the boy, who by a superhuman Greenville Lodge, No. A. F. A. arms, he groped his way to the fort, caught it. and then turned c M., meets Thursday door and found himself upon the glance of passionate up night after the 1st and Sunday at . . . . K . . f I,. Lodge. M. King. w. M. street just as the first faint streaks, to his unknown Greenville R. a. Chapter. No. so meets of dawn grew in the sullen east. the latter, with his -h That was yesterday. He had unpleasant laugh. expect I've O. O. met a slattern on emerging from done you the worst turn of any. It I.; his lair and had stayed her to ask i was a liberty on ray part to seek to prolong days. You Beets every Tuesday D. June, N. G. I eagerly Insurance Lodge, No. K. of H., i j . . j first and third night. and she had D. D. Haskett. D. answered of the right to After given the fever as room every Monday night, at j her. Got along a ye ye young Mass meeting in the Court House varmint. got along, and all d Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the Reform Friday each -week. Mrs. V. H. Which- ard, Band of Hope meets m Reform Club Boom every Friday night. Miss y, op- pressed with the weight of the idea that he had killed that man, and oppressed, too, by the weakness that held him as its prey, be sat in the doorways or gaunt archways, hardly knowing that the demon hunger was gnawing at him. Not heeding either, because hardly able to bear the winnings will 1-issued from to l and of the puppy he held to . I him with such a tenacious grasp. Bethel daily Sun- a a. K., an at a. p n. the next day broke he mail arrives Sun- knew be wanted and a at . and departs sickening desire for it arose with- fling that sixpence into the And the figure stooped and gathered to his breast the little frozen boy. and suddenly a soft delicious glow ran through his numbed veins. And Jerry let his tired head fall gently back against that tender bosom. And heavier and heavier grew the weary then sudden- time that I was there, should ha there even weather there ten ago, is an improvement on to tarnish his character. N. C. Truth Hal ways ennobling. Never. L c harry skinner. I have be ashamed to keep it upon your l BL seen a little of it going on, but not Profanity is a mark of low L enough to give anything like an breeding. Mark the man who accurate description of it. If X commands the meet respect. An there It of more closely never trembles on his tongue T V. es , I was there, but there more oath never trembles On his t ye been more business matching the method of making a profane word never n taking the I tell you of it in Read the of into consideration than Inter letter. I stated in the be- in the the vi years Fort crime Attorney and at N C. ob, so light and presently he pally went there good felt himself lifted up carried Add never more did little Jet- ginning of this that I expected intemperate, vile, wicked, thieves, I soon to leave Dawson for other; robbers, murderers, and probably Gaines, and latter is quarters. Nothing preventing you will not find one among them nearly as large a town as go to Albany to-morrow who is not profane. Think of Greenville of to-day. I expected or Wednesday. I do not this fact, and never let a vile know how long I will remain in word fall from lips that town, or which place will lie; frankness, generosity, virtue, visited after I leave there. I ex-1 blessed t What priced I Bat t to visit The and j less pearls lie these yours, I to do work for the milling section of the State soon, j and you shall never You ti and finding that learn that there are quite a re watched by those who are old- to spend a few more days in the town than I did, but fortunately I managed to secure I ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Will attend all term of Pitt Hones- j Court, from the first to last day nearest gutter if you have a grain know cold or hunger or fear or POST Office boors a. K. to p. m. Older lour- a. M. to P. K Money No or- mail daily at h. and depart at i. M. leave tor Ridge Spring and ad Friday at a. . n ti r. M. man Friday, at r. g, in him. Bat bow to get it in II that big, grant city of who was there to give meat to poor, Not It was of sense j if not, make it last for two days. It is more than I shall have to live upon for that lie paused and then said a shop round the The boy had dragged himself by the lintel of the door with a view to thanking him properly u, spite of his contemptuous but with his last words the young man Hong himself round despair, and never again did dark- trouble him, for shall be no night Author of in Lou don Society. For the Good Temper. Good temper is like a day, it sheds its on every. and into the middle of the M No trait of character is . n . . crowd, carrying his eager, wild cosing face into the turmoil the great city. Jerry, still hugging to his It seat the dead dog, moved slowly and painfully down the street, turned the comer and stopped at heat be- fore the lighted of the shop to be hod directed. A came from the door, the to yea or hat valuable than the of good tamper. It is flow- -springing op in oar pathway, reviving and words looks are the outward and are with in. Anus W. Bethel, N I a foot that the could take passage on one of the plying the Chattahoochee river Saturday night, I availed my- self of that opportunity of get ting away from the town. I ac- settled my bill at the hotel, boarded the steamer Naiad shortly after supper and was soon steaming the river. The is not a wide stream but is quite deep and rapid, and is navigable for about three hand red miles. On account of the swift- of its current it considered of the dangerous of the navigable streams in the South. Several disasters to boats have happened on it, and all ware at- tended with loss of life. The teat consequence occurred et Fort about two ego, a boat ran against the bridge and sank, and thirteen persons were drowned. at night and there wee a of North Carolinians More anon. J. R. Whichard. mm always freshet in rivet. all river Lexington One the rs Hiram Ha per, a color- ed citizen of the north-eastern sec- of the county, got between a poet and the sweep of a cane mill and was torn clear from hie head. downier. Men of business have their eyes on you. If you are profane, vulgar, they will not I want you. If you are upright, of steady and you will Wilmington There is a who bus a very common memory. lie can not read bet lie can do this he driven a wagon and he can soon find good places with pros- of a useful life before you. Adrian W. Index A man who attempted rape upon a little colored girl near Rich Square, was shot by the at this week be- fore he be arrested. The wounds were not fatal, and the i prisoner was taken back to North- W. B. I. A. K. O. J SUGG A to N. C d y after day loads of goods for for trial. a or twenty families and never make a mistake. He can beat that ; he can forty pass- books and deliver them correctly Tell, him once of a new hook end to whom it goes and chat enough All the hooks look alike hat he makes no mis take Eden ton and Mr. John aged and Mrs. Venn OS Hart on, aged were married Saturday evening last, Nov. 12th, rear Eden ton The bride's mother is still living at the age of Le the old, well m the young, enjoy them- Collections a e the Superior, Federal JOY Attorney and at N. Will in Court of Greene, Edgecombe and ties, and the Supreme Court. Faithful attention given to all I entrusted to DR. H. n. c. Surgeon Dentist. Tender kin services I public. Teeth extracted pain I Nitrous Gas. i . YELLOWLEY, N. C

The Eastern Reflector, GREENVILLE, N. C THE LEADING PAPER Subscription Price, per year DEMOCRATIC, BUT not hesitate to Democratic men measures that are not consistent with the true principles of the party. II you want a pa per from a wide-a-wake section of the State semi for the tor. SAMPLE COPY FREE WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER Entered at the at C, as Second-Class Mail Matter. Hew York City wants the Democratic National next year and is making bids therefor in a lively manner. Verily, the Metropolitan City is not without its attractions. The daily papers contain full accounts of the meeting of the Baptist State Convention at Dur- ham last week. It was a did meeting and largely by persons from all over the The President is preparing his message to Congress, which as- early in December. The document is looked forward to with no small degree of interest, as it will doubtless treat upon topics of vast importance to the Nation. It has been said the forthcoming message will be brief and directly to the point. How much we have to be thankful for What blessings surround us Though many of us may possess but little yet how much better, yea, far better, is our condition than hundreds of others around us Reader, ponder upon this to morrow. It is Thanksgiving Day. Render thanks to Almighty God His inestimable blessings, and show your appreciation of hie manifold mercies by generously opening your heart and making glad some poor creature who has not been so bounteously blessed as yourself. The small boy and cigarette got in another expensive days work on Monday of last week. A boy dropped a lighted in a cotton compress in Little Pock, Arkansas, result- in the destruction of the compress and other buildings that applicant may accept a commonplace person, and in fact, she often does. Bat, to- the contrary, we scarcely need mention that such men as Noah Webster and Samuel J. have been seat away, by her frown. Men try to fathom the depths of woman's mind and, when they are most certain, are nearly always bitterly disappointed in their forts. This seems strange first thought, but when we think how different is the mental action with tho opposite sexes we see a of the problem, for neither rarely, if ever, conceives the of the other's mind quite correctly. Speaking in general terms, it may be said that man reasons out his results, while a woman never With her what comes to her on the spur of the moment she does. She feels it and as moods and feelings change oftener than logical reasonings the difference is readily apparent. We do net take the ground that a woman is of reasoning and that the use of logic is unknown to her. Far from it. We are conscious that this would be throwing down the gauntlet, defiantly, at the feet of those who are capable of entire- demolishing all the logic ever learned by the wisest ; and, too, because we know some of them can reason. But we speak in gen- terms and fear no for the mutability and of woman's mind have grown into frequent proverbs and poems. Shakespeare are soft, mild, pitiful and And in Scott's we find him, who was so gallant, so at all times, saying, that she is coy, and hard to please And variable as the shade By the light, quivering aspen Pope says, not sarcastically either, at best a contradiction And it is well known that those traits of her make-up are never more strikingly illustrated than they are when marriage is ed. It has been said one never knows exactly how this issue will be decided. A man may know a young lady for years ; he may have received from her decisive of regard that he translates as love for himself ; his company may always have seemed to him acceptable to her, and yet, if he asks her to mate with him, to his partner for life, he is general- apt to get a sudden revelation that is surprising to both . sides. Was any woman ever proposed to was not surprised, even self, When a man tea to a woman for a year or one else is that he proposes to her. No other man that is aware of the dream- stance is in fact, but she always is. The fearful uncertainty of what a woman will say when her hand is sought for in marriage makes the ordeal a most difficult . It seems that the roost natural and easy thing for a man to do, when he loves a woman, is to tell her so. Not so, however. To ask a woman to marry you when you do not wish to marry her is easily done, but to ask the right is the hardest performance. For the age refusal always imperils. There are men who would rather have been with those who held the pass at than to march up and ask a woman to marry Many and mysterious are the ways in which men try to spell out the secrets of their adored one's heart, but they can only know by lute trial, by putting the fated question point-blank. There is absolutely no preparation that leads to this. Putting the is like jumping a wide chasm you are not certain that you will land in safety on the other side. If it fails, the curious and will be to leave mat- worse than they previously were. The young lady, premising to be your still, is less a friend before, because she actually retreats, to some extent, from the intimacy and friendship that were before so graciously tended and accepted. She grows shy of you, and feels it to step backward in order to check a possible new advance. It seems as if women, even when the man of their choice pears, wish to make the capture of themselves difficult. Whether they rejoice in this momentary power, or expect to be prized more highly ever after for exercising it, or both, it is a practice and a they almost invariably adopt. A woman sometimes loses the very lover she covets by tripping him up once ; for the very best man is often the one that will never put himself in the way of a second re- from the loveliest object. At the same time one less sensitive and will stop at nothing; and after a triple discomfiture in succession, will out do the rule, and make three negatives equal to an affirmative answer. Tops. and nearly five thousand bales I though she was seeking such a of cotton. The aggregate loss is nae And why p summed up at And and marry ; but if you this calls to mind the heavy Goldsboro sustained, not a great while since, all caused by a boy and a cigarette. There seems to be no abatement of tire nuisance. Every boy caught with a in his mouth ought to have about forty lashes applied to his bare hide. Since Col. Harry Skinner was suggested, a few weeks ago by a correspondent of the News and Observer, as Chairman of the Democratic Executive Commit- tee of the State, we have seen numerous endorsements of the suggestion in our exchanges, many of them referring to his ability to fill the position in no uncertain words. The Elizabeth City Economist has to this we could spare Harry Skinner for a few months when the State canvass opens next year to stay in Raleigh and to manage the Democratic Committee he'd show you a canvass such as has never been in North Carolina. exactly man. if we can spare him. the phrenologist, said there was more executive ability in that head than in any he'd ever had his hand There is not the slightest that as an organizer and leader Col. Skinner has no superior. However, we can ill afford to spare him from down here for so long a time as it would require his absence, yet the best inter- of the party must be served. The Marriage Refusal. It deems a little strange such a topic should be discussed by one who has never yet its effect, and yet a theory is good so far as it is true. And if theories are proven to be are not worth as much to us as actual experience And theories surely cannot the mind so long as it is not dictated to by them, but remains unbiased, free, and controls hie theories. Bo here goes. It. has been aptly said if a woman has little choice or in the matter of seeming a husband, she baa one opportunity tremendous power as will look into it you will find that they have not learned the ways of society. They have not learned to put on her veil and drop into marriage in a natural and easy manner that is refreshing as the dews of Bummer to a parched laud. If they once wait till they have reached the age of twenty-five years and have had any real taste of society experience, they become hardened, set themselves up as critics and are hard to please. The woman of experience is a great stickler for the mere of etiquette and convention- She would not have it known for the world that she had made an step towards matrimony and led the on in the slightest possible manner. Some women never do, from a fear of what Mrs. would say or from natural timidity as the case may be. When a has re- ah offer of marriage the first thing she does is to consult her mind and see if she can re- member having done anything to lead the man up to the proposing point. If she has ever done a pleasant thing for him, pinned a bouquet on his made him a trifling present, or him at times, it all comes back to her in this torturous self- examination. What if some one should think she had tried to cap- him If she has a suspicion he thinks so, she has an idea that, if she accepts him, he will despise her the balance of her life. If she thinks another woman thinks so of her, she imagines she is to be the perpetual target for scorn henceforth. Some women have such delicate ideas of propriety just along this line they had reject a suitable offer, lire and die an old maid, than to marry and give ground to the idea that management had any part in such result. A perfectly frank woman in the matter of marriage is a marvel. No matter bow truthful she is under ordinary cir- how lovely char- the tradition that are In vague her to a W. J The Supreme Com- of he in the wise dispensation of His baa fit to Tint oar ranks and remove therefrom John J tune, one of therefore be it Resolved That we, the officers and be of Greenville Guard, Company 1st N. bowing in bumble obedience and submission to the command of Almighty God, acknowledge with tea lings of sorrow the great loss that has befallen as. In the death this brother in ranks Company B. loses one of its faithful and each soldier a true friend and comrade That we to the family of our deceased com token of our earnest, heartfelt sympathy in the sore affliction they have sustained. While our hearts are bowed with sorrow at our lost, truly theirs are torn and bleeding because of the severing of the circle and the removal forever of one of its beloved number. That as a further of our grief we wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days That these resolutions be spread upon our record books, a copy sent to the bereaved family of our departed comrade, and cop- be furnished the Eastern Re- and Democratic Standard with a request for publication. T. B. S Com. W. Parker, AND HEAD and STUDY WELL Clothing, Dry Goods, Boots and shoes, Notions, AT LOWEST MY FOUR MY PRICES MY PRINCIPLE I MY GOODS MY GUARANTEE My prices are low down. My goods, the best. My principle, the fairest. My guarantee is, that is misrepresented; and I promise to give you full value for your money, so consider well and come to buy your goods of Guss NEXT DOOR TO TERRELL'S TIN SHOP. Mr. Editor speech Jackson made down in not long ergo seems created rite smart Digger impression up hit did down here. In fact, I believe Senator one or too threatened do fur on hit. I thought at start war be- case Jackson had made speech agree Hit seem strike em in de eyes de law Jack- son just es loyal man now es em, an has jest es much right speak in of State Rights es John Sherman has speak in favor of high tan All dis sorter reminds me story I read not long go. When Butler in command New Orleans good rebel down shout kick up his heels jigs time de army got made Butler mad, so he had de arrested. When him up, de great spoon collector eyed him one eye den fur So So, what am de mean monkey shines up time our my meets misfortune Mr. So k So he bout hit, sum- bin on him, but he couldn't fool Ben, so he got de choice jail or de oath allegiance. de two evils be chose de latter, an he'd bin sworn be turned loyal man now in de eyes de Government or else, de I kin talk es much es please can't I de now twixt you de Bob Lee give us at day De South am in jest de same fix rebel, we wanted git out de Union an not have do hit but de let us, now we are back in de eyes de law got jest es much right talk as anybody Thurman, John Sherman, The Judge nor nobody else can't help hit so jest es well cool off take things easy should find them- selves warlike am de spirit of Anarchism seems rite in de Northern States on which they moot satisfy their martial boat tor dis an dis subject is or I will Pan P. K. T. R. Club Room, Nov. 1887. In the wisdom Almighty God He hath taken from our midst bro. J. J. Harris, and whereas, in the death of bro, Harris we have lost one of our most valuable ; one who was aver zealous for the cause he had espoused ; one who was faithful to his pledge even unto death, Resolve, That we bow with humble submission to the will of God knowing that he all things well. That we extend to his our deepest sympathy in their sore affliction, and pray that God who has stricken the blow, stretch forth bis healing hand bind up the broken hearted, and comfort the distressed. And may the light of His wisdom pear unto them brighter and sweet- far than the sorrow that now surrounds them. That a copy of these be spread upon our minutes, and sent to bis family, to the Tern- Advocate at Washington and our papers tor E. C. C. F. Wilson, S Com. D. L. J Letter. Special to Reflector. Washington, D. 19th, A census of the next House I of Representatives shows the j complexion of that body, to be as follows Democrats, ; Republicans ; and dents In the Democratic it will require votes to At present no contest is apparent except over the office of door-keeper, though it there should be a change in that position, graphical considerations would probably lead to a complete change House officials. It is of course conceded that Mr. bis own successor without in his own party. It is ed that the contest for the Ex- Speaker's seat will not amount to anything. His intimate friends give out that when the House as- and organizes, and the contest is being considered, Mr. will vacate the chair call the veteran Pennsylvania Re- publican. Wm. D. Kelley, who is known as the of the House, to preside during the of his title, a course that will generally be commended for its fairness. A recent decision of the Supreme Court adverse to the patentee of fills the hearts of millions of farmers with gladness, because it the verdict had been favorable to the inventor he would have reaped a royalty of ten each on the three million drive wells in the United States- amounting to The issue gained was only the idea making a well by driving an iron pipe the water. The State Granges of Iowa and Minnesota voted to fight the patent. The probability that at present the postal business of the count is on a paying basis, speaks vol- for the ability and economy of the reform administration which President Cleveland is giving the nation. For many years past the deficiencies have amounted to from eight to fifteen million of. dollars per ; but for the fiscal year ending June it was since then this was re- to about and for the year just past, the deficiency was reduced to one million dollars. At this ratio of -red not ion. the Poet Office Department will be running at a profit before the of the year. The carry- of the business mail of the my of office-holders of the country annually costs Government the immense of two million dollars. Then, it ought to be a matter to pride to all Americans to remember that their postal ear- is the moat world. A FULL LINE OF HARDWARE of every description will be kept on baud Paints, Oils, Varnishes, DOORS LOCKS, BUTTS, MECHANIC'S TOOLS, Nails, etc. FURNITURE has been added and a full line will be kept, of BED ROOM SETS, Bed Steads, Mattresses, J, CHILDREN'S CHAIRS, Round Tablet, Our limited will prevent our keeping in stock at present flue furniture, but have and will take orders and guarantees faction. M. A. JARVIS N. C, Sept Tar Greenville, President B. J. Greenville, N. M. Tarboro, Gen R. F. Washington, Gen Alt The People's Lino for travel on River. The Steamer J is the finest and quickest on the river. She has been thoroughly repaired, refurnished and painted. Fitted up specially for the comfort, ac- and convenience of Ladles. POLITE ATTENTIVE OFFICER A first-class Table furnished with best the market affords. A trip on the Steamer Is not only comfortable hot attractive. Leaves Washington Monday, Wednesday and Friday at fl. o'clock, am. Leaves Tarboro Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at o'clock, a. M. Freights received dally and through Bills Lading given to nil points. V, Greenville, N. C. HARRY SKINNER L C. LATH SUCCESSORS TO JOHN H, k CO THE LEADERS IN Ml kinds of staple goods. Our Fall and Winter stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Hats, etc., have arrived, and all friends and customers are invited to call and ex- goods and prices. Having t he entire of John H. Con Co, including notes, book Mild all evidence of debt merchandise, solicit their former and Increased Being to make all For getting advantage of the discounts, will lie enabled to sell a cheaply as any one South of Norfolk,. shall retain in our employ D as general superintendent of the business, with nil former partner Skinner as assistant, who will always he glad to and serve their old customers A special branch of our business will be to furnish rash at rates to farmers to cultivate and harvest their crops, in soma to with approved NEW JEWELRY STORE. I have Just opened a Jewelry Store at the stand of O. I., and will keep on sale a nice line of WATCHES, C and Jewelry. Am also prepared to do all kinds of re- pairing on Mich articles In a manner. MOSES DYAN DOWN WITH LONG One Price Goods sold on a Credit Every Bargain we get we give the public the benefit of it. J. Li, INSURANCE AGENT, BUILDING OPPOSITE GREENVILLE, C. All kinds placed in strictly FIRST-CLASS COMPANIES At lowest current us n call when in need of KIM ACCIDENT and LITE stock INSURANCE, E. C. GLENN. STANDARD GUANO. ACID PHOSPHATE, PULVERIZED OYSTER SHELL, SHELL LIME, DISSOLVED BONE, COTTON SEED MEAL AND Tennessee Wagons, for sale. GREENVILLE, N. Mar. 1887. is NOW i OLD R LIABLE CARRIAGE FORMERLY BELONGING TO FLANAGAN d WILLIAMSON AND INVITES ANYONE WISHING TO PURCHASE CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, HARNESS or who hart r needs repairing, to cam, on him. All STORM, -Oil,, or lbs desires, and all work warranted, to nil tor past I HUM la so- J. D. WILLIAMSON. LITTLE, HOUSE k BRO. DEALERS IN DEALING WITH ALL NO GOODS MISREPRESENTED. is our Motto. Brogan Shoe price Quality price to Dress Shoes, usual price to Better quality, usually Children's Pebble-Grain Button generally 1.26 to 1.50 Women's Shoes, and Men's Pants cents, usual price to 1.50 Men's Pine Dress Shirts, to a piece, usual price to 1.00 Fine Hose, usual price to Colored Half Hose usual price Fine Hose usual price to and others lower than any in the market. Dr. Gilbert's patent Corset usual price 1.25 to 1.50. We keep other Corsets at to cents. Collars, linen, all sizes and styles, for cents Cuffs from to cents, good linen. Hats from cents up Caps for cents, usual price to cents Kid Gloves usual price 1.25 to 1.50 Lisle Thread to Winter Shawls from to price to 1.00 Silk Umbrellas 2.25, usual price 4.00 Common cents up Buttons cents per dozen, usual price Pearl Buttons per dozen, usual price cents Lead pencils for cents Sifters cents Scissors cents Nice, large, tin dippers Sets Any amount of Tin Ware, prices to suit all GIVE US A CALL AND BE CONVINCED. GETTING IN GOODS BY EVERY BOAT TROUBLE TO SHOW Full Standard PRINTS at Sf cents Do not fail to our did stock of full line and Before purchasing A nice line of DRESS GOODS of various kinds. WILL SELL CHEAP. i h AT MOST ANY PRICK COME AND a pair. YOU IT NOTICE TO Clerk of Pitt county Letter of to the undersigned, on day of Oct. upon Hie of Catharine Harper notice U hereby given to all indebted to Mid to make creditor o claim, properly or the 24th day of October, or notice will be plead lit bar of their recovery. ThU the 34th day of Oct. 1888 E. II. estate Catharine Harper I all of i. L. ELLIOTT. J. P. JOHN NICHOLSON COTTON FACT authenticated, to me, on BALTIMORE U NORFOLK. in Baltimore In 1870. Will open n Homo In In September, 1887, for the handling ale of cotton, thus giving our flu lo

THE EASTERN REFLECTOR, THIS PAPER AT P. A. AD- may be It I Cotton to Thanksgiving Day to-morrow. We hoar rumors of another wed- ding. . Almanacs for 1888 almost ready to pull. There was plenty of ice Monday morning. Just one month and two days to Christmas. Hough rice brings to cents in this market. The State Grange meets in Tar- next month. Sunday was the coldest day of the season thus far, The heads of the Thanksgiving turkeys go off Our Thanksgiving turkey has not put an appearance. Do something for the poor and the orphan Innumerable drummers have been in town the past week. The schools will observe to- Col J. A. has been very for several days. Nannie is visiting rel- in Wilson and Nash. Miss Nina Cherry returned lust Thursday from visit to Mr. J. L. has moved m to the Knox building on Greene street. A little daughter of Mr. Flemming, of visiting the family of Mr. James Lung- Icy . were glad to see Mr. T. J. Bernard, of Haleigh, formerly a resident of Greenville, in town Monday. Mr. A. J. Griffin has moved in- to the dwelling on Fourth street, lately occupied by Mr. Andrew Joyner. were glad to see our young friends Messrs Stephen and Sta- ton Purvis, of Martin and Frank Knight, of Bethel, in town Sun- day. Rev. J. W. Wild man, pastor of the Greenville Baptist Church, preached in Goldsboro Sunday. lie reached home yesterday on his return from the Baptist State Convention. In Six. Church near Wednesday evening, Nov. 16th, Mr. J. W. and Miss Lena rick wore married, Rev. Nat. ding They were attend- ed by Frank Wilson and Miss Annie Harding, Bryan Mis Josie Claude and Miss Sallie- John and Miss Mattie Moore, Joel Patrick and Miss Mary King, C. L. Barrett and Miss Fan- Brooks, L. A. Williamson and Miss Mary F. ding and Annie Powell. The happy couple have the best wishes of the for a long and joyous wedded life. ts Come. Sheriff King keeps right on with his business of hauling in the law breakers. Seven new coons have been placed in the county ho- tel our last report a week ago, placing the total number now at Henry Baily was arrested but gave bond for his and released. The seven were all imprisoned for four had been stealing cot ton and three had tried to eat too much fresh hog that belonged to to somebody else. They were Milly Ann Day. This Why, in the afternoon, trying to keep up with it. have a large hearing. Solomon Rev. h. Jones, a quaker Amos Dixon, Sarah Den- evangelist and temperance reform-; Bradley Phillips, John Per- of much note, will be in Green- ville next Sunday and entertain our people at the temperance ma.-s He use Miss Purvis, who was kins and Spencer Cannon. If the Sheriff keeps on catching them at that rate the County Commission- will have to build a larger jail I for bun to put them away m. The street hands were cleaning , y L Ste the drains on street last Sunday , near Hamilton. Her many friends here regretted her departure and would be delighted to see her again in Greenville. week. The ladies of the Baptist Church will hold a festival Friday night. Do not forget the temperance mass meeting next Sunday after- noon. Sunday Schools flourish at this season of the year. Christmas pear. The street lamps are poorly looked after. They give very dim I Every week bring the when in use. a few new subscribers. While Again we inform our friends in is -the country that the stores in town colored men who play upon, the harmonica, flute and guitar, respectively, have been in tow ii a few days making some de- fill music. The harmonica We have received i player in the cripple John- oral very complimentary letters was m Greenville some concerning the all of weeks ago and who attracted which are highly gratifying. It attention by his wonderful , .,. k,. always buoys one to renewed energy to know that his efforts are appreciated. will be closed to-morrow. A nice lot of business and cards have just been ed at the office. We are ready for that wood de- were going to being us. Cold weather is here. Christmas comes this year on and circulation continues to larger. If all our friends the hands that occasional- playing. The other two with him this time are Lee Stevens who is an excellent performer upon the flute, and William Johnson gets as much music out of a guitar as any one have heard perform that instrument. The three make music Squally as beautiful as Don't let the rush keep you away, but call in and secure your BARGAINS. The Latest Novelties in Dress Goods Trimmings, Shoes, Clothing, LICHTENSTEIN. would help us there is no telling j through this section. They what we could accomplish. The old gallows upon which Ir- Lang was hanged still stand- near the wharf, but for what pose nobody knows. Will not the Board of County Commissioners have it removed By so doing Sunday, if it don't rain If it town of a does, it will be on a rainy day. The will be closed to- morrow- except at the hours of re- g and dispatching the mails. The birds will have a dreadful frightening to-morrow. The The stockholders of the Tar Transportation at their meeting here last Friday, de- to purchase hugs new steamer for Tar liner. Mr. N. M. THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION ; woods will he full of hunters, you Lawrence, the General Manager, know. On next Wednesday the N. C. Conference of the M. E. Church, South, will convene in Fayette- ville. Let every heart be lifted up in grateful thanks to Almighty God for the many blessings of the past year. The Rocky Mount fair, unlike most of the other fairs held this season, is reported to have a success. In order to get full benefit of the Reflector this week be sure to read everything in both paper and supplement. Thanksgiving Services will be held in the Baptist, Methodist and Episcopal Churches to morrow at o'clock. Postal cards may now be return- ed to the writer. They will also be forwarded from one address to another upon request. Telegraph office hours row are from to a. m. and from to r. m. Patrons of the office please take notice. more blessed to give than to receive. Remember this, read- and make glad the heart of some mortal on to-morrow. Work has been resumed upon the Baptist Church. We hope to see the building entirely completed at no far distant day Our excellent neighbor, the Snow Enterprise, began its third volume last week. It is a good paper and deserves a large patronage. The Reflector office will be closed to-morrow. Come in to- day if you have business with the office that can not be postponed Friday. A Baptist Sunday School was lately organized in Bethel. We also learn from the Washington I shimmer and glisten like so many papers that one has been organized brilliant diamonds in that town. Ball of Honor. The Band of Hope are having 1st quarter, Fall session is now in Baltimore looking after the purchase of the steamer. Woman's Work, a. of Do Economy, is the name of a new monthly published at ens, Ga., edited by Mrs. Ella R. of Marietta. Ga., and owned T. L Mitchell, of ens. The first number has been received at this office. The sub- price of the journal is on- cents a year. Last week we sent out a large supplement giving our readers columns of additional reading matter. To-day we send out an- Thanksgiving supple- We will send sup- out from time to time. We are striving to make the Re- meet the wants of the people and in this we ask the aid of every reader. We Are Greenville should be proud of her school and its able principal, Duckett. have been enrolled, which is the largest en- in East excepting the Davis School, we are told. came in the Reflector office and gave a serenade Monday after- noon. New M. L. Slaughter Co. are go on I of business and offer goods at cost. B. F. Keel, of Marlboro, a lost note and wains persons against trading for it. Allen Warren, administrator of be estate f John Tuft, has a notice to creditors in this is Several new medical advertise- appear this week. They will be found upon the supple- Bates, of Savannah, ; offer music at wonderfully low during the holidays. See i advertisement. The long established firm of T. U. Cherry Go , are closing out their business and offer all goods in their line at cost, with- out reserve. They also notify per- sons indebted to them to make mediate settlement. Our Stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Dress Goods, Notions, Hardware, Harness, Tinware, Crockery, will be sold at New York Cost, WITHOUT RESERVE Our must be closed by the first of January next and these goods will be sold of Price Bargains Will Be Given For The Cash. I, R. BY THE GOVERNOR, and HEADER OF LOW PRICES in PITT COUNTY In presenting- this, my annual to the people of Pitt and vicinity, it gives me pleasure to return thanks for your patronage during the past, and by honest dealing I hope to merit the same in the future. I have given personal attention to the chase and management of my stock, and only a call is needed to con- you that HARD TIMES things of the PAST John has a special no- in this paper which concerns all persons to him. He contemplates moving in the try soon and all accounts not paid before he leaves will be placed in the hands of a collector. Heft. Death has again invaded the realms of our town, this time re- moving one strong in the vigors of young manhood. Truly Death is no respecter of persons, but lays his icy hand upon young and old alike. On last Thursday morning the 17th inst. at about o'clock, That brother what he the soul of Mr. John James, aged talking about. He has been is here and knows something of the excellent school we have. Verily, Greenville is proud of it. At Night These are moonlight nights, and when clouds do not interfere and hang their drapery o'er her face fair Luna sends a flood of mellow rays down upon the earth to brighten up the dark and dispel the deep gloom caused by darkness. What thoughts come- upon us as we stroll along and lift our eyes to this beautiful queen of night that reigns Heaven's own blue, while around her twinkle and spar- myriads of bright stars that of meetings. They have a debate every Friday night and there are some witty speakers among the little fellows. Every bonded officer of the will have to renew their official bonds before the Board of County Commissioners at their meeting on the first Monday December. Superior Court convenes in Washington next Monday. A representative of the expects to be in town day or two looking after the in- of the paper. Friend John Wheeler says-there is not much fan to be bad by go- fog in swimming on a cold day, j with your fie got a partial ducking at the Greenville HIGHER DEPARTMENT. Boys W R Mayo, A D John son, Boy Flanagan, S T White, Z Z Moore, G Tucker, John Ran- Joyner, Erwin, W O Little. Cox, Estelle Williams, Mattie Moore, Annie Harding, Belle Greene, Hortense Forbes, Bessie Jar vis, Ada Leggett, Mary Terrell, Bessie White, Julia Foley, Lee Foley, Leroy Mooring, Emma Taft, Allen, Minnie Moore, and Mary Cannon. PRIM DEPARTMENT. Leta Go wan, Lin a Mamie and Annie The highest averages were made by Miss Nannie Cos in the fa town department, and Miss Leta ed from earth to appear before Him sits upon the great white throne on high to judge the quick and the dead lie was a son of Dr J. G. James, late pro- of the Macon House He was a victim of typhoid fever, having been taken with that dis- ease about three weeks before his death. Thus a life just fairly be- gun is to an early close. His remains were interred Friday morning in Cherry Hill Cemetery. Deceased was a member of the Greenville Guard and Was buried by the Company with military honors. Rev. F. A. Bishop con- ducted the funeral service. The pall bearers were J. S. Smith, L E. Cleve, J. C. Chestnut, Frank Wilson, J. F. Joyner and D. J. Whichard. The attendance upon the funeral was unusually large. The grief caused by his death falls heavily upon the family, and the entire community extend to them heartfelt condolence this boar of severe affliction. May God who has torn their hearts asunder send His Holy Spirit to comfort them. Among the many sea- wares I am of- will be found GRAND MAMMOTH DISPLAY OF FALL ail WINTER GOODS We have values that will bear inspection throughout our bright, new Stock, which has JUST ARRIVED, EMBRACING THE FINEST QUALITIES, the LATEST STYLES, most COMPLETE AS and the LOWEST PRICES. OUR DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT Our Velvet, Satin and Trimming Department Consists of all Colors and Shades of Silk and Cotton Velvets and Velveteens, from the cheapest to the finest qualities, in striped, plaid and plain designs. Trimmings in all colors, from inch to yards wide. Braided and beaded Hamburgs and Laces and thousands of other articles in this line that want of space forbids mentioning. Our Ladies and Children Wraps and Cloak Department. We can show you a line of Ladies, Misses and Children's gar- in Russian Circulars, long and short Jackets, of the latest designs and style, in qualities such as Brocaded vets, Diagonal, striped in all colors. Plush, Beaver, We have, this season, the largest stock of Ladies Wraps that we ever carried and our price will enable you to make a purchase. We can show you a fine line of Striped, Check and Plain hams of all grades, 7-8, 4-4. Drown and Bleached Homespuns small and large check. Plaids wide. Blenched and Brown Sheetings. Pall Styles of Striped Seersucker. and stylish lines of Calicoes, Tickings, Curtains, Flannels of all colors, Please Read This. Any friend having books from my library will greatly oblige me by returning them to the TOR office. I cannot recollect all books loaned, nor the parties to whom they were lent adopt this method of collecting them in. Please read this list of hooks, examine yours, and if my name Appears written on the title page deliver as above Library of Universal Knowledge. Vote. ; Chamber's English Literature, volt. S ; History of The Popes Vol. ; Memoirs of Cele- Characters, Vol. I ; Life Poems, Vol. ; Origin of Species, Vol. ; Shakespeare Vol. ; British Poets, Vol. ; Dun Quixote. Vote. Cruise of The Betsy, ; Letters of Von ; War Experience, Orpheus C. Ken Years in Congress, Sunset Cox ; Speeches of Chatham and ; The Spellbound Fiddler, Georgia Scenes ; Flush Times In Alabama and Mississippi; Humorous Phases of the Law ; Tales ; Reveries of a Bachelor ; Bacon's Essays ; The Federalist; French Revolution, ; Dr. and Mr. Hyde; Poetic Treasures; Major Jones Travels ; Genesis Geology, Dr. Hughes. This list does not include books loaned to Reform Club Library. Very respectfully A. Senator Vance met with a pain-; accident on Saturday a week ago, by falling from a wagon in which he was riding He ed an ugly cut on the head but is getting along well. The dent happened near his home in Western North Carolina. CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, Don't go anywhere else for them but to croup Wife reliable Carriage Factory in Greenville. Go there if you want first- class Buggy. ill And on Saturday evening an- other home in our midst was tilled with gloom and. sadness because one of its loved ones had been called away. Little Brace Pee- ten-year old eon of Mr. Peebles, died of typhoid been sick a weeks. The remains were interred Sunday afternoon at the family banal grounds, six mites above town. services were conducted by Rev. F. A- Many per- the to- with new. Gowan the j tin J. PROCTOR ft BRO.-1 GRIMESLAND, N. C. DEALERS IN General Merchandise. We Veep constantly on baud a good stock of Ready Made Clothing, Boots, Shoe, Hats, Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Notion, Hardware. Tools, Pro- visions, Light and Heavy Groceries, To- Cigar , Liquors which will be We pay the very highest market prices tor Cotton and all kinds of Country Pro- dace. We have five inch Shingle which will be at per thousand at Perry. All owing us are Te- to make immediate Dent and that YOUR ORDERS SOLICITED. Manager. D. Lichtenstein Co AT THE OLD STOKE. AND MERCHANTS BUY- J- their year's supplies w ill find it to their interest to get our prices before chasing elsewhere. is complete in all its branches. FORK SIDES SHOULDERS, FLOUR, COFFEE, SUGAR, TEAS, always at Lowest Market Priced. TOBACCO SNUFF CIGARS we buy from Manufacturers, you to buy at one profit. A com- stock of . KT ML El always on band and sold at prices to suit the limes. Our goods are all bought and sold for CASH, therefore, having no risk to run, we at l margin. Respectfully, D. LICHTENSTEIN CO. N. C AND Hardware Dealers GREENVILLE, HI WHEN YOU WANT Wagon, and Material, Paints, Om BUT Cotton Gins. Steam Engines and Boilers, or any goods Id ibis line CALL ON BEST GOODS. . LOWEST PRICES, i i inn y Rugs. Floor Oil Cloth in -1. 6-4 widths. purchase until you have inspected our beautiful stock, as it will pay you to until do so. OUR CLOTHING DEPARTMENT Having for years been the Leaders in the Clothing trade we are ready to show you a full and complete line of New and Stylish for Men, Youths, Boys and wear, embracing Single-and Double Breasted Round and Straight Cut Sacks and Frocks in Fancy Checked, Striped and Plain all Wool, Cashmeres, Cork Screws, Diagonals, Broadcloths, ; also a full line of Single- and Prince coats and vests of our own make. We guarantee to give you a fit, from a child's to the largest man's sizes. An inspection of our stock in this line will satisfy we are the leaders. Also a full line of ULSTERS and OVERCOATS. OUR HAT CAP DEPARTMENT is complete in all Styles and Shapes. Those who wish to possess a nice head ornament should inspect this line. Our Carpet, Rug and Oil Cloth Department. my What beautiful carpets was the remark of a con- that passed our store Prior to this we had some- what neglected this Department but, owing to frequent calls from our custom- i.-. have invested largely in this line of goods. We i .-., can show you a lull line of Brussels 8-ply, plain and fancy, in wool. and hemp carpetings, also a full line of Smyrna and fancy t vi. s a a k a a a Cashmeres. Flannels, Suitings. Plaids and Stripes, Blanket Cloth, Dress Silks both Black and Colored, beautiful and en too numerous to mention. and Trimmings. of every Braid and Braided Sets and Panels, Watered Silks and Sat ins, Sultan, Satins, Astrakhans, Fur, and all other Stylish Trim- Clothing. Gents Cheviot Suits in all sizes and colors, Gents Double-Breast Prince Albert Suits, Fine Dress Overcoats, and everything else that comprises a First-Class Clothing Department for Men, Youths and Boys. Boots Shoes. Ladies Fine Buttons Kid Boots, Gents Fine Dress Boots, Heavy Boots, Ditching Boots and all other kinds for Men and Boys. Ladies Gents Fine Dress Shoes of Standard makes. The Frank Adler Shoe in Button, Lace and Congress. Gents Furnishing Hats, Caps and everything else to be found at the ONE PRICE STORE. Manager and Proprietor. N. OUR BOOT AND SHOE DEPARTMENT We can safely say we have never shown such an assortment as we are ready to show now. We have a Large and Varied Stock of Men's, and Children's Shoes, in Lace, Button, Congress and other Styles of all qualities ; also Men and Boys Heavy Boots at exceedingly low prices that will induce you to make your purchase of us. Our Merchant-Tailoring Department We have added, this season, to our Large Establishment a rate Department in the Merchant-Tailoring line, embracing the la- test Styles from our new Fashion Plate of this season in Cashmeres, Worsteds, Cork Screws. Diagonals, Doe Skins, of all de- signs, and give you a SAFE, SECURE and RY guarantee in FIT and STYLE, as our reputation for the past years has proven such to all who have tried us. All kinds of Men's Garments CUT to ORDER. In Addition to the Above Departments We Carry a full and complete assortment of Trunks, Valises, Traveling Bags, Blankets, Comforts, Picture Frames, and thousands of other articles which for want of space we have omitted to mention. We wish to call the attention of public to the fact that we do not carry any second handed or old stock goods, nor is it necessary, with our reputation, to quote prices ; but an inspection of our Mammoth Display of New Goods will convince you that we are offering Rousing, Rattling BARGAINS throughout our new, complete and extensive stock. An inspection of our stock will convince you of the above. A.

MRS. E. A. SHEPPARD HAS JUST TO HER STOCK Millinery Goods, and has secured the cervices an All orders can row be filled on the short notice. Dry and Wet Stamping tor painting and embroidery neatly executed While in the Northern markets she careful to select the best mm latest style goods in the Millinery line, ant Is prepared to offer purchasers special FREE DELIVERY IX TOWN OF KEROSENE OIL. By JAMES A. SMITH deuce.- and RESORT GRAND EMPORIUM For Shaving, Cutting and Hair. AT TE GLASS FRONT, Under the Opera House, at which place I have located, where I have everything in my line NEW, CLEAN AND ATTRACTIVE, TO MAKE A MODEL BARBERSHOP with all the improved appliances; new and comfortable chafe. Razor at reasonable figures for work outside of my shop promptly executed. Very respectfully, EDMONDS. T THE STOCK OF NEW MILLINERY GOODS arriving at MRS. COW ELL'S will convince they are without a parallel in market, both as quality and price. A new lot of the latest style goods every few days. N. C UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT CONVENIENTLY LOCATED. LARGE SAMPLE ROOMS. TABLE SUPPLIED WITH OF MARKET. Good rooms servants. Feed Stables in . s. Proprietor. HOTEL V DELIVER, DAILY, Tr to parties Kerosene Oil, as pod as any in market and at j rooms. Best Price now paid at the stores. j , affords. When In the city SATISFACTION GUARANTEED stop at the time, money and trouble by per- L mining us to fill your orders at rest- on Main St. N. C. Notice to Creditors. Having on the 9th day of August 1887, qualified as executor of the estate of W. H. deceased before E. A. Clerk of the Superior Court of Pitt county, all persons having claims against the said estate are notified to present them to me for payment on or before the 12th day I of October or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All per- sons indebted to said estate are to make immediate payment to me. This 11th day of October W. F. Executor of W. H. SALE OF LAND. v to a decree of Pitt Superior at June Terra 1887. Wm. White- head against L. V. the undersign- ed Special will sell at pub- sale at Court House door in Green- ville on Monday 2nd day of January next th tract of land in said county. at the bridges on the Green county road, cross Middle Swamps, thence the run of said Swamp to the month of Reedy branch, thence up the Canal said branch to Allen's corner, thence North East pole- to a light- wood stake in the of several small maples in Thomas line, thence West rates to a stake, HUM by small Joyner's thence South I West poles to a pine near the county road, thence i South t-64 W poles to a stake in a bend. Aaron corner, West to the Green county road. Jas. corner, thence a Southerly course along the of said road to the be- ginning, containing by estimation twelve hundred acres more or be- the lands formerly belonging to Dr. Noah Terms cash AUG. M. MOORE Nov. 7th. Special She her cress And rained upon Out creature's nose A storm of sweet; The swell reclining at her feet Remarked, as ha looked up, wish that I'd been born a Then smiling coldly from her throne She said were yon fall- grown STEAM and all other machines repaired at notice. M home or at shop. Iron and Brass Turning done in the best manner. Cylinder- bored. Models made to order, Locks r. paired. or fitted. Pipe and threaded. Gins repaired in best manner. work. General Jobbing done by O. P. DUMBER, Greenville. N. C. WILMINGTON and R. R. Schedule, GOING Boat, No No Dated June daily Mail, daily daily ex Sun. Weldon Ba pm Ar Rocky Mount Ar St Ar pin Ar Ar Ar No daily ex Sun. Wilmington S am pm Magnolia am Ar Warsaw Ar Selma Ar Wilson Wilson run Ar Rocky Mount Ar am Ar Weldon pm Daily except Sunday. Train en Scotland Neck Branch Road leaves Halifax for Scotland Neck at Returning, leaves Scotland Neck A. M. daily except Sunday. Train leaves Tarboro, N C, via A Raleigh R. R. Sun- day. P M. Sunday M, arrive N . P . P M. leave- Williamston, X C, daily except Sunday. A M. A M, arrive Tarboro. N C, A M. AM. Train on Midland N C Branch leaves except Sunday. A M, X C. A M. Re- turning leave- Smithfield. X A M. arrive N C, M A M. on Nashville Branch leaves Rocky for Returning leaves Nashville A M. daily, except Sunday. Train on Branch leaves Warsaw tor Clinton, daily, except Sunday, at P M. Returning leave Clinton at A -M. Southbound train on Fayette- Branch i No. Northbound is No. Daily except Sunday. Train No. will stop only at Wilson. Goldsboro and Magnolia. Train No. makes close connection at Weldon for all points North dally. All rail via Richmond, and daily except Son- day via Bay Line. Trains make close connection for all points North via Richmond and Wash- AH trains run solid between ton and Washington, and have Palace Sleepers attached. JOHN F. DIVINE, General J. R. Transportation T. M. EMERSON. Passenger STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, O county. Minnie Sherrod, Nina E. Cherry, husband, N. P. James and band. F. G. James vs. Willie Sherrod, Defendant. To Sim-rod You are hereby notified that on 1st a petition was filed in my office by the above named praying a division of the lands described in said petition of which you arc an heir. You are hereby to appear at my office either in or guardian on the 23rd day of December to answer, plead or demur to said and should you fad to so appear a guardian will lie appointed to answer for you and judgment rendered in accordance with said petition, witness my hand at office in Martin comity North Carolina. . T. FORD Clerk Superior Court. TO duly qualified on the 12th day of 1887, as executor of the rotate of Tatar Fleming, deceased, before E. A. Clerk of the Superior Court of Pitt County, notice is hereby given to all per- sons having claims against said estate to present them to me for payment on or the 18th day of October. or this notice will be plead in bar of their All persons indebted to the estate arc requested to make immediate payment to me. R. R. FLEMING, of Peter Fleming What let I U ft r The symptoms of are happily too well known. They differ in different individuals to some extent. A hill ions man is seldom a breakfast eater Too frequently, alas, he has an excellent appetite for liquids bat none for solids of a morning. His tongue will hardly bear inspection at any time; if it is not white and furred, it is rough, at all events. The digestive system is wholly oat of order and Diarrhea or Constipation may be a or the two may alternate There are often Hemorrhoids or even loss nut If twain it b Stand did any thing notable. Talk good, bat do, posh, drive are better. No city there are no worker. Great undertakings come from energetic and Great rein Its follow intense activity and combined en- The New Orleans a lesson advantages do not, make a great city. The little old city of Portland, Me., he the fin- est harbor in the world, so roomy accessible that the biggest ships from the sea, with canvass spread, can to the wharves without pilots or with water so deep that the Great tern tied up there years ago ; yet Portland will always remain of no of blood. There may be giddiness and often headache and acidity or flatulence , . , . and tenderness in the pit of the stomach, j importance To correct all this if not effect a cure try many inland country villages. A BUY OB EIGHTEEN SIZES AND KINDS ILL PURCHASERS CAM BE SUITES Green's A Flower, it costs but a trifle and thousands attest its efficacy. Freight Rates, Wilson Advance. The demand for freight that will allow North Carolina people to trade with each other goes up from every section of the State. The manufacturer who sells goods to the people of the State must first ship his goods out of the State he can secure freight rates at which be can do business with the people of North Carolina. Is this right We think not. The of the State are given ad- vantage. The people of the counties have paid largely for their construction. Is it fair then charge the business men of North Carolina such an rate of freight that they are thereby prevented from doing business with their own people The in- every section of the State demands that this injustice shall not longer exist. The need for a railroad commission must be to every well wisher of the State. Could not a commission accomplish something in this line We so. Yon cannot afford to waste time in when your lung are in Consumption seems, at first, only a cold. Do not permit any dealer to impose upon you with some cheap of Dr. King's New Discovery tor Consumption, Coughs and Colds, but be sure you get the genuine. Because he can make more profit he may tell yon be has something as good, or Just the same. Don't be deceived, but insist upon getting Dr. King's New Discovery, which Is to give relief in all Throat, Lung and Chest affections. Trial bottles free at drugstore. Large size The Advantages of Early Mar- risk of young fool you Isaac Co., L. C. TERRELL, GREENVILLE. N. C. SEND FOR A SAMPLE COPY. , THE STATE Successor to the Farmer A Mechanic and the MANAGEMENT BRIGHT AND CLEAN PP WITH THE TIMES The will be what its name State paper. It is Dot the Raleigh and not be local or sectional. It will aim to keep the current newt from Murphy to or as the politicians put it, from Cherokee to It will be the of no man, a no section, no It will be Democratic in but will not to criticize Democratic and Democratic THE WILMINGTON STAR. REDUCTION IN PRICE I Attention is called to the following rates of subscription, cash in THE STAR. Six Months,. . 3.00 Three Months,. One THE WEEKLY STAR. One Six Three Months,. Our Telegraph News service has recent- increased, and it Is determination to keep the up to I the highest standard of newspaper excel- Address, Wm. H. BERNARD, Wilmington, N. C Om terM I he v are Judge. Yon don't run the an old maid. It is better to be a than an old one. The unmarried girl feels she growing old too quick. If you make a bad match can blame it to inexperience. When you ate getting old no one will take you but a widower. It prevents your married friends from sympathizing with you. If you wait till you are thirty it is hard to get a young husband. The man who marries an old woman always wants something thrown in. You are apt to get shop-worn if you remain long on the market. You have a better chance to catch a second husband if you happen to lose your first. If you catch a millionaire's son you will have him before he has blown in his fortune. You avoid the pleasure of to him by the all your girl friends tell you how happy they are with their husbands. great city is made by the and bustle, and energy and get-up- and-get of the people who ate willing to THE CURE. The theory of the mind cure may do some hysterical cases, but for chronic bow- el troubles, croup, colic tery, Dr. Huckleberry Co.-dial is the surest and best cure. Keep it. Men of Worth to a Town. The only men who are of worth to a town or community, says an exchange, are those who can for- get their own selfish ends long enough, and who are liberal enough in their ideas to en- courage every public mind and private are ready with brain and purse to forward every project calculated to build up the town and enhance its A town might, as well prepare tor its funeral as to be- come indifferent to tho industries and enterprises in its midst. Men who come to town to make it their future home, who can't see tar enough before to see that money placed judiciously in a pub lie enterprise of their own will bear hundred fold in the of their own property, are to be pitied. They are not the men who put their shoulder to the wheel and help build up a town. They belong to a class who are ready to take all they can of some one else's building and en- but. are not willing to do anything themselves. It is the town that has tho most in it that grows most rapidly. THE EFFECT of SLEEPING in CARS is the contracting of cold, which often re- seriously to the lungs. Never neg- a cold, but take in time Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and great cough medicine. One of the most encouraging signs of the times is the apparent- thrifty and prosperous of the Press of the State. We might mention dozens of that have lately bought new the old hand- press and purchased tine power presses. There is nothing that in- the prosperity of a people so much as the public press. Show us a live and sprightly newspaper and we will point you to an en- lightened, enterprising and go-a- head people, and Rocky Mount Phoenix. have been the cause of much bronchial troubles. Coming out into the open air a slight cold, followed a severe cough is contracted. Take in time Taylor's Cher- Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein. Here is the way the old Ger- man Emperor kills his lie site in an easy chair the are driven along in a herd at a distance of less than twenty yards from his gun, which hand- the as they approach. This is doing better than some hunters, who buy their Star. SwaM Legal E. Munday, Esq., County Atty., Clay county, Texts, used Electric Bitters with most happy re- My brother also was very low with Malarial Fever and Jaundice, but was cu- red by timely use of this medicine. Am satisfied Electric Bitters saved Mr. D. I. of Horse Cave, Ky. adds a like testimony, saying positively believes he would hive died, had it not been for Electric Bitters. This great remedy will ward off, as as cure all Malarial Diseases, and for all Kidney, Liver and Stomach disorders stands unequaled. Price and at ding store. is the great remedy correcting all of the perverted processes of this Important organ. Sold by all druggist. Price only cents. The d stressing ailments of early child- hood are promptly relieved and cured by the use of Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup. Price cents. News Observer. He of in Ire- dell county, to have a cotton factory. The citizens of that town have gone to work and, with the assistance of State immigration Agent J. T. Patrick, have secured it. Some time since Mr. Patrick originated and adopted a plan by which any or city in the State can easily secure any kind of a factory it may want, and the real live towns are taking of it The plan has published before. It is about as follows . Mr Patrick is in almost daily correspondence with factory men and capitalists who desire to come to this State to make in vestments; but the capitalists want some encouragement and evidence of good will. Mr. Patrick's plan determine by inquiry what kind of factory would be most profitable in a certain place, if the citizens want the factory and if so how much they want it. He has had prepared blank forms for this purpose which may be explained as follows It has been a good location for a cotton factory. The citizens of--------have declared they would like a factory in their town, but they do not wish to invest large amounts in one know about the business ; but some are willing to make donations in order that the factory may be es- in the town. The form sets forth that the citizens of such town will give one half acre of land for the site of the factory and will also give certain amounts in money each, ranging from to any amount. They subscribe their names and write the amounts they propose to give. This list is returned to Mr. Pat- rick, who submits it to some com- seeking investments, and points out the inducements offer- ed by the town of Of course cotton factories would not be paying institutions in every place, but a different kind of might be badly needed in some town, a canning factory in another, a spoke and handle facto- in another, an iron foundry in another, and so on. For every in- of this and many other kinds, competent men are seeking locations. With the lists which Mr. Patrick proposes to up, he can show any bod v a desirable field for any manufacturing enter prise and show just what, kind of a reception and how much will be given to the en- He is always in with parties who desire such information and who will act on obtaining it. One of these blanks was sent to the town Mooresville, and the citizens once agreed to invest about in a cotton factory and that amount has been bed. This list was submitted by Mr. Patrick to Messrs. Godfrey Co, of Providence, R. I., and they will at once put in all necessary ma- for a first-class cotton and commence operations. Similar measures for establish- various other kind of factories in the State are in progress, all of which will probably result in the building of various industrial en- Asheville Some gen- from Michigan, after pros- in Madison, secured an op- on a piece of mountain land for sixty days. These sixty days expired this week, and the result of the investigation is that the party bought sixty acres, for which paid in cash. The trade has been concluded, and the cash paid. Men should learn a lesson from the moon for it never gets too full to rise when the time comes. ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE. here, Murray It is Well to Remember. Headlight. That happiness is not perfection unless it is shared. That great possessions may bring great misfortunes. That a foolish friend does more harm than a wise enemy. That the hardest thing to out of the heart it conceit. That it not necessary to be mean because one a man of means. That good temper, like a sunny day, sheds its brightness over That one of the causes that leads us to misfortune Is that we live according to the example others. To the Proprietor of Thou hast built a living A cure for hurts with tittle noway mast o, the . a domestic or M. hen egg sue- the still Goldsboro Mrs J. this city, has a cross between a that has laid an for over one hundred days in cession, having begun laying last week in July, and is attending to business. Any one having returns that can beat this will please send them in. Sylvia Not withstand the very short supply of the apple crop there has been shipped from this point, by freight, since the 1st of October, pounds of chestnuts. pounds ; cab- pounds ; Irish toes. pounds ; onions, pounds; and one mixed car-load, for Augusta Ga. of pounds, aggregating pounds. Salisbury i A young roan named Carter, county, to town a horse toot day to swap off. But Mr trying the market all day without a trade during which he freely, night came on and he took his horse in the rear of the Boy- den House and oat its throat and Oar about W that sight as be wet dying. get baa no s know the is pun u win M A STOW U pen -a -j K. . CASKETS We mass W cannot This we all know. But do we all know we die by t It is said we dig graves with our teeth. Bow foolish sounds. Yet it fearfully true. We air. at the approach the cholera and fever, yet there is a dis- ease constantly doors and in Our houses far more dangerous destructive. Most people have their own n poison, more but fatal as the germs of those which sweep men into eternity by thousands without warning in the times of great lint it is a mercy that, if we are Watchful, we can tell when we are threatened. The following are among the yet they do not appear in tho same v. nor are tho same in There a dull r.-. Risen a bad in Has in the morning; the appetite able, poor and again it seems as the could not eat enough, and x-i no appetite at all j dullness and slug- of the mind; no ambition to study v more or head- ache and in the head; dizziness on tiring to the feet or moving ; furred and coat- ed tongue; n of a load on the stomach nothing removes; hot dry skin at timed; tinge in the eyes; scanty mil colored Hour fasts in lbs mouth, attended fey palpitation of impaired vision, with spots that seem to he swimming in the air before the eves; a cough, with a ration ; poor rest; a sticky slime about the teeth gums; hands feet cold and clammy; irritable temper and bowels bound up and This disease has puzzled the physicians and still them. It is the commonest of ailments and yet tho most mysterious. Sometimes it is treated as consumption, some- times as liver complaint, and then again as malaria and even heart dis- ease. But its real nature is that of constipation and dyspepsia. It arises in tho digestive organs and soon affects all tho others through the corrupted and blood. Often the whole the nervous literati;, starred, even there is M emaciation to tell the sad Experience baa shewn that there is pot one remedy certainly cure this in r. stages, namely, S -I of Hoots or Mother s Syrup. It never fails mi, time should be lost in trying other so- called remedies, tot will do no good. Get this great vegetable preparation, I by a able nurse whose name is a house- hold word and be sure to get the tide. GIVEN i BY Shaker of Hoots or gel's Syrup ha raised me to good health after seven doctors had given me up to with consumption. So writes R. F. Grace, ville, Todd Co., Ky. HEARD OF IT IX TIME. had been about given up to die with when I first saw tho advertisement of Shaker Extract of Roots or Syrup. After using four bottles I was able to at tend to my business as well as ever. I know of several cases of chills and fever that have been cured by So writes Mr. of Geneva Co., Ala WORTH DOLLARS A Mr. Thomas P, Evans, of the firm of Evans Merchants, Horn- town, Co., Va. writes that he had been with digestive disorders for many years and had tried physicians and without He to use Shaker Extract of Roots or gel's Syrup about tho 1st of Jan. 1887, and was so much better in three weeks that he considered him- self a well man. He have at this time one bot- on hand, and if I could not get any more not a ten dollar Mil for All druggists, or Address A. J. White, Limited, Warren St N. T. virtue of the given In a Deed Trust made by W. A. Barrett Co, on the 6th day of March. 1886, and recorded in the Regis- of Pitt county in Book pages and 6-, the undersigned will sell at the Court House door In Greenville on Monday the day Dec., 1887, the fol- lowing described real estate, situate in the County of Pitt, township That tract of land on which W. A. now resides, lying on Black Swamp and Creek ml joining the lands of B. A. I. Barren, G. W. Bar- and others, containing acres more or less tract Is subject to the home stead of said W. A. Barrett, described as Beginning at a stake near Tar- road, G. W. Barrett's corner, thence down the branch to tho swamp, thence down the Swamp Greenville road, thence with said road to cross fence, thence with fence to Creek, thence down Creek to cross fence site to dwelling house, thence with said fence a straight line to Greenville road, thence to Fork Tarboro, thence with said Tarboro load to the beginning, contain- Also the store lot in the town of In said County upon which the said W. A. Barrett A Co. done business. Terms made known on day of sale. J. A. November 1st, 1887 Trustee Sugg A James C. B. N. . Edwards N, Printers and Binders, KT. O. 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EASTERN REFLECTOR.- SHUT. AT JACKSON'S. GREENVILLE MARKET. To this They Were Grateful Thank mg Day. Corrected weekly by D. CO., Wholesale and Retail Grocer. and friends, likewise Mr. Jackson, am now gathered this board to discus.- our f Thanksgiving dinner, and to keep the in our hearts what we is of by this bountiful my dealt and likewise you, we is each of us to our in turn, soy what we is thankful for. For myself, the oldest, I kin that I am thankful for everything; most that I is over that rheumatics that mo so, and that Mrs. Jackson keeps in good and plenty of and that my is all to school and is up nice and Now, Jackson, it's your gives thanks to Lord for all his but I would to say that I Is very glad that there ain't no ornery, low down, white trash what can boat me nor nor in looks when I gets my Sunday close said the old man, re- ain't in order, but that long as it's so, ye ain't no wise to blame. Now, Cleopatra, let's from paw, I don't like to say, but I is thankful all the with a look at Mr. Hawkins, who smiled back as if he had t he same reason for giving special thanks. Abraham Jackson, tell paw and all the company what you is the said the old father in Israel to the youngest member of the family, after all the rest had ex- pressed themselves. is thankful that there ain't no more of us, if day wouldn't go Let us say A THANKSGIVING SERMON. Of all the days that have set apart as sacred to the people of two stand forth in holy radiance as the out- come of the purest sentiments. Tho Is Decoration day. and tho other Thanks- giving. The one was born in loving of the dead, ard the other in gratitude to the bountiful Giver of all we enjoy. The flowers we lay upon tho graves of soldiers and lost ones are not sweeter than the thanks offer today. Some, indeed, may not give articulate sound to their thanks, but it is safe to say that in all this broad land there is not one person whose heart, whither it is weighed down by sorrow or light with joy, does not send at least one grateful thought toward the source of all good, though perhaps they are hardly conscious it. Gratitude for favors given is a and ennobling sentiment, and meet Is this youngest and most signally blessed country should set apart one day wherein the whole nation, as one soul, should to silent thanks for all the bounties and blessings we enjoy. receive the feast to the spirit of a reminder that these blessings are but a part cf the abundant store; and with He testing tin. thanks- giving rises like incense. Let there be no empty tables In the land, that not one single heart fail to oiler its meed; and let us an the Load for bis good works, for his mercy An Old Dinner. The following i the of Hie dishes at Thanksgiving on a Pennsylvania farm. with the exception of the was placed the table at once, to obviate the of rising, as the dear old hostess was none too strong and kept no servants, and yet cooked it all herself. Al the head of the table a large chicken pie, in the middle two roast chickens, and at the foot was an turkey, and opposite the chick- ens a roasted There were fourteen pies of different kinds, three large cakes, crullers, preserve.-, pickles of four kinds, boiled onions, mashed potatoes, and nips, cheese nuts. custard, head cheese, lilac nit, brown and white bread, and lastly n big plum pudding, coffee. All this for thirteen persons. This dinner was twelve years ago, and all the diners still live. A Thanksgiving; Sentiment. the historian, when asked for a Thanksgiving sentiment wrote man today earns more money, wears better clothes, cats better food and of more kinds, lives in a more comfortable home, knows more of the world, holds broader views than be could possibly have done when the Nineteenth century came The Pie. rhubarb pie in early spring. in June; And Christmas time its rich night and noon. the royal for is pumpkin, golden y Ah that's the kind for me. If not For any other fellow Quern Victoria travels she is supplied with a special lime table, printed elegantly in mauve, on thick white bordered with gold and surmounted the royal arms. For I lie Against the gloomy, J All stark and dim the tree tops lie, And loud the chattering robins cry Spring to remember. Untiring arc the Winds that blow, O'er the bills and low. Breathing promises November. The summer flowers arc withered, dead. The maple leaves, of flaming red, That clothed the wood with lire, have fled. Leaving the ember. The pines arc drear Cadences In Winter's car- Dirge o'er tho the dying year Pork Bulk Side. Shoulders Bacon Sides Bacon Shoulders Pitt County Hams Sugar Cured Ham Flour Coffee Brown Sugar Granulated Sugar Syrup Tobacco Snuff Lard Butter Cheese Eggs Meal Corn Irish Potatoes G. A. Salt Liverpool Sail Hides Rags Beeswax Bread Star Lye Kerosene Oil worth wanted this winter at the Old Brick Store- New and Nuts, Dates, Figs, Applet, Candies, Cakes, Oranges, Lemons, and at the Old Brick Store. Have your Clothing out by A. the Mer- chant Tailor, and get a good fit. We have just new toW auk to go of samples Custom of business for hat reason offer Made Clothing, consisting of the finest and line of Import- ed Goods A A CITY 14.75 to to MA to 5.50 to M to to to to PRICES Cost name In the leaven on n tree. Her there for fellows like you Oh are breezes, An wanner lithe town; Bo upper. My me cornea down. to to HO to 1.00 to 3.40 Moll our stock of GROCERIES FOB pure bred Jersey t John Fleming, Greenville, N. C. Be Wise by getting full value Pore hand made cigar tor Sets the Old Brick Store. Lost. COST.- Come to see us early if you wish to secure BARGAINS. M. L. Slaughter Co. For suit of on layout Of turkey, and pies; to lit oar ate Ami we no An- nary Wore thankful, for It one hole year. See Here. On the hist., a note for five red pounds f lint cotton or value In money, given Robt to II. F, Keel, payable oil the first day of a TO CHANGING MY Lang's All persons are hereby forbid- den from buying or trading for the same. H. F. Keel, MARLBORO, X. C. NOTICE TO qualified on the day of as administrator on the estate of John Taft, notice is hereby given to all person having against said estate to present them, prop- authenticated, to for payment on or before the 10th day of November. 1867, business on the 1st of 1888, I now oiler my entire stock of goods that will suit everybody. I only ask an examination of my stock to you that I mean what I say. All notes and not paid by the of De- put in train of collection; also I shall proceed to collect all accounts not paid by the 1st day of by law J. R. Davenport, X. C. , . . , Dry Goods, Boots and To ,.,,,, your Shoos, readers I hat. I have a positive remedy for Carpets, Oilcloths and Ladies, named disease. By Its timely of hopeless cases at SI. Li. permanently eared. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy to any of your readers who have if hey will Rend me their express post once address. Respectfully. T. A. Slocum. M. C, Pearl it., Y. or Ibis will be plead in bar of their j AN , . All persons indebted to said Superior Court of Pitt County, estate are requested to make made a certain Special The the Boss Fatuous Lunch Milk Biscuit over six months previous lbs, yon know at the Old Brick Store. One the celebrated Stew Coffee Pots given to every chaser of an Excelsior Cook Store Are you looking for Bargains, salve. The best Salve in the world for Bruises. Salt Sores, chapped Hands, Cuts, Corns, r ml all Skin Erupt I on and cures or no pay re- It Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded, Price, per box. tot sale by HUSH payment to me. S a something that will the eye S. T , , f , , , Special Notice. Rid Court as ease number I will, on All persons indebted to me by note or account are requested to call and settle same immediately. Further indulgence cannot nor will not be given. When move in country I place all my Claims in the a Collector instructions to collect, ho- ping the collection of but few will have to be paid for. FLANAGAN. Greenville X. C. IMPORTANT. A IX PERSONS TO THE FIRM T. R. Cherry Co., are hereby come forward once and settle accounts. This is important, as the business of must closed up. Friday, December 16th, 1887, at pub- sale before the Court House door in Greenville all that piece or parcel of land situated in town-hip and known as lot in the division of the lands of deceased, among his heirs at-law and which to Marina The Nicest, Largest and Cheap- est Stock of Furniture at the Old Brick Store, which invite you to examine before buying. W. S. Bawls has just received And then the sweetest raptures reign, When the door is closed and die -hades arc dropped; For lovers I hen pure bliss attain. glued lips go Hop. Wilson Mirror. A. now Marina A. i, i- ,,,, ., scribed Beginning at last f lot docks, The upon the scene course of lot I in Silver-Ware and ever And softly door knob, Notice thence West poles to the road, thence down be road thence North East poles to run of the Creek, thence up the Creek to beginning, containing subject however to the dower right of Marina the widow of -aid David Terms of sale Cash. de non of David X. CLOSING OUT AT A SACRIFICE TO MY AND deem it but. justice to you and myself to ,.,., Inform you that I have no connection with STORE which I now occupy must B any other and if you wish vacated by the first of January, In . me to repair your Watches, Clocks. Jew- etc. you should be careful that it is delivered to me individually. My long experience as a practical workman is well known to all. Watches. Clocks, Jewelry, and Spectacles for sale and repaired in a skillful and workman-like manner. Than- king you for past favors I hope, by strict attention to business, to merit a of the same. Respectfully, brought to Repair Watches Clocks and Jewelry a specialty. Davis and New Homo Sewing Machines for sale at Brown Hooker's store by C. Highest Cash Price paid for Rough Rice by Glenn. For Gifts for have your Picture made at Greenville, N. C. Cakes, Crackers and Candy at at t lie Old Brick Store order that necessary repairs may lie made to the building, and to prevent the hand- ling and moving of too many goods my present stock offered AT COST. My stock embraces a full line of MILLINERY GOODS, such as HATS and of latest Practical Watchmaker, Jeweler and En- styles and best qualities, At old stand VELVETS, FELTS, A. J. Griffin, Wanted Cotton Seed. For which the HIGHEST CASH PRICK will be paid, or Cotton need Meal given ex- J change. Tarboro Oil Mills. Tarboro, X. C. Oct. 12.1887 Sm WYATT L. BROWN, SATINS, and all kinds of goods generally kept In a first-class millinery store. Also r. full stock of NOTIONS consisting of HOSIERY. GLOVES. SETS, and CHILDREN'S SHOES, EMBROIDERIES and a full line of JEWELRY of the best rolled gold plate. Ill fact thousand other articles too numerous to mention. Remember these goods A SPECIFIC FOR Woman's Diseases pr s in order to prevent moving them. COME AND EXAMINE THEM. Mrs. R. H. Home. Oct Greenville, K, C. What art can now their blushes screen Says he. mien I'll boss Tarboro Southerner. And then the old man broke the theme, That cupid had begun ; Two kicks for every piercing -cream, Two soles that worked a- one. When can a man have and nothing in hi at tho time when there is a hole in If I is a hole the lungs it can be healed with Taylor's Cherokee remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein, and by Rev. N. C Hughes, D Ian bought at the office. Price 91.25. Keep off the dulls by putting on your If yon have none go to have the best 1.1 Underwear ever seen in PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM on tho r.-N.-i if-. Never Fail la Hair to its Youthful Color. 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Forbes. or Alfred Forbes. I CURE FITS When I say I do not mean merely to Mop them tor a time, and then have re- turn I A RADICAL I have made the disease of FITS, FALLING SICKNESS, A lifelong remedy to worst have for not now . Bend Of my and Office. It cots you nothing a trial, It will you. ROOT. JONES BE A Ton St. el -in For price this

GOD, FROM WHOM ALL BLESSING FLOW; HIM, ALL CREATURES HERE BELOW; PRAISE HIM ABOVE, YE HEAVENLY HOST; FATHER, AND HOLY GHOST BOTTLES AND RAGS. A THANKSGIVING STORY. Bottles hail been declaiming from the top of a barrel which stood among other merchandise upon the dock, when a slim mite of n girl en me toward him from the other side of the Bottles jumped down from the barrel, and, with a stag approached the girl. They an a quaint pair; he a gatherer of empty bot- she a picker. If ever they had names they are now no spoken, for they are known among the quarters they as Bottles Rags. They were Boston street waifs. Bottles is one mass of tatters and flit- from hat to torn shoes, through which his frost bitten toes peep. And the girl, if anything, is more ragged than he. As he grasps hold of the hand, the spirit of the man within him little Rags cold as a honk of lee. Where you what you got and what you to do with it If you've and got and can't do any- then come with father. He's got ten cents, and ten cents buy a plate of fried cakes, It was interesting to study the of utter trust which came upon the girl's face while the Boy is speaking. Her tether That was only a pet term he was wont to use, expressive of his guardian- ship over her. said the girl, after a short Cause, the moat money you ever in all do mean, let me see; I last Christmas I had as much as one seventy- will the band and the piles and out of as the sailors down at the Hum sex. row's Thanksgiving, that. day set for big responded Rags. say, Rags, did one see yon pick It I seen it kinder jammed down in a big crack. I it was ducats, and, when a thing of that sort, I made sure no one was when I lifted a good lift it was, Rags. That one lift means big fur you and I with the swells. If there's ducats left we'll get sum new togs and board round a spell down to bis now, here comes the old The with the pitcher of beer. The waRs went to the snuff box win- and gazed out upon the chilly look- roofs and the slippery street below. The old woman drank the beer, after which she rolled herself in a tattered blanket, laid down upon a creaking bed, turned her face to the wall, and was soon loudly snoring. gone up, Rags. Now fur it, but hang a rag over the keyhole said the boy. The girl did as he requested, then came and sat down by him. He poured the clinking pieces upon the soap box under the window sill. I reckon there's ducats here to buy a hull house from bottom to ca- BOTTLES AND RAGS. poor thing too poor fur me to broke in the girl, as she drew her ragged skirt away with mock pride. here, Rigs, you've with father. You've got sun- thin on mind. tell me the hull thing cut you off with ten cents, not the your eyes on said the girl, holding out the hand which she had con- behind her. The boy fell back a step or two as he gazed upon the article which she held. I brought you up better this You, you who I picked out the gutter Oh it's sharper than a snake's tail to have a I didn't prig the quickly exclaimed Rags. spoken like me own dutiful child. I say. Rags, is the puss well looked; it's heavy, though, it jingles. I only found it while over on India wharf. I ran all the way to find Bottles took the purse in his hands. As he felt t he magic touch of its contents through the silken meshes it drove all thought of cold or hunger away. In the purse was more money than either had ever touched. In it was warmth and victuals, though Bottles gave no thought to either, so overjoyed was he in the possession of the precious money, real gold and silver, for he could tell that by its clinking. The two waifs finally, cold and tired, reached the tumble down structure in South street, where they lodged. They climbed up the rickety stairways, passed through the narrow, dark and ill smelling halls until they reached the attic door, upon which Bottles tapped softly. A small circular disk in one of the upper panels slid back, and a thin, beak like nose with a pair of red rimmed eyes appeared in the opening, as a sharp, raspy voice responded the boy. The door was opened the pair passed Into the low, musty smelling room. asked the raspy voiced female. returned the boy. The purse In his pocket seemed determined to jingle. This would have been a dire calamity; for the old woman would have pounced upon it like a hawk. asked the woman, turning toward Rags. The girl held her hands out, palms down and open. pair. No bottles, no rags; got Can't stay here to- yes, forgot. I've got a dime. Can't you let u. stay fur broke in Bottles. dime small me the said the woman. Bottles laid the piece upon her out- stretched palm. She threw a bag hood over her iron gray locks, and taking a pitcher from the window sill, went out She's gone fur beer. When he drinks beer she sleeps, and when sleep, we counts the contents of this puss. Rags, I say, kid. we'll have a -daisy time to-morrow. Bid yon know to-morrow was the day fur big It's a y. and all us rich coons have to do but OUT- hear your father talk I much on the count, but I guess I can strike it within a few hundred. here's else in the puss. A ring. Bah I don't take no stock in them things. Can get cartload like it down in Salem street for ten cents a one. Put her on, The ring, evidently designed for a child, just fitted the dirty little finger over which the girl slipped it fur the ducats. Rags, ducats is the root hog die; I'm porker miff to root into One, two, three grand and here's ten double buzzards. Them stands fur two of is and so on Here goes fur a count. One, two, three, four, five. That's an even Phew rich is no name fur it Put finger on that pile. Rags, down Does it burn fingers I'll even up with that pile there's Two hundred dollars and other chicken feed too numerous to men- exclaimed the boy, sweeping the money into the purse. drop the sparkler in. If the old woman on to It, good ducats, sparkler, big and all. I reckon we'd better get sum sleep Bottles, I'm hungry. I want to eat said Rags, turn- her big blue eyes up at him. on that then, you poor little hungry kid yon. All I got. Eat Rags; I can stand it till till dinner The boy lay down upon a pile of rags, and after the girl had eaten the sods cracker which he had given to her she too lay down near him and was soon wrapped in slumber. They awakened early, rose and stole from the attic, the old woman still asleep. Rags, this old scrum- mumbled Rags, as she took great bite of bread. here, kid, don't be wast yet on common grub as bread. Sail into the beans and and ham and sass Turkey is the bird of freedom urged Bottles, helping himself in tarn to each of the dainties as named. Perhaps the Crawford was never graced by such a pair during the whole of its ex- tent of entering to the public, Bottles had purchased two regular din- checks, and chosen a table in the so as to be as free as possible from the hungry crowd which thronged the place. The faces were washed clean; they were as tidy as their dated garments would permit. A new yellow ribbon held Rag's curls back from her really pretty face, with its roguish, big, blue eyes, cute little mouth and turn up nose. And Bottles, he had laid out a portion of the wealth on a paper collar, green tie and huge, glaring, red glass pin. The ring which the purse had contained was upon Rag's forefinger. up, whispered the boy, touching her foot with Ills; lick fingers. I learned yon better that I'm to make a lady of you, kid, and I'm hound to have yon git on to them small right. Bottles; I guess right. I up in as this, and you must the wine list. Do we want ain't fur as us, Bot- I has started oat on the racket, and it the thing fur us to use in a right toot now. Rags. I only mentioned the tack far fun. Can't yon smuggle one of them tarts, it asked the girl, looking quickly. on, Rags; pot the solids la Act, you'll smash the A smile over each face as waifs loaded their bag with the remains of the meal. let me git my hat on all She arranged her headgear to suit her, and followed Bottles to the door. this brightness turned to clouds, for a tall, blue clad form, with doable rows of brass buttons upon the breast, stood there. with me, said the officer, taking hold of each by the shoulder. don't mean I say, boas, you've got the wrong party. We done have we, Bat poor little Rags was crying. The blue coats had always been the terror of her life. She had heard terrible stories about them. Now, she and Bottles are in the care of one, and she is ready to drop in fright the racket, asked Bot- He, too, was troubled; but he most put on a brave face for the girl's sake. a purse. Come And this was the end of the poor little grand dinner. On the way to the station house with an officer. A curious crowd of street boys, news- paper bootblacks and the like followed the policeman and his two little prisoners to the station house. His honor was taking dinner; would not hold court today, and the two waifs were pot into a comfortable cell upstairs. Rags cried herself to sleep, while Bot- hero like, sat by her side upon the cot and kept cheering her up by telling her that it would be all right in the morning. And down stairs, under lock and key, the unlucky purse and ring were lying in the desk drawer. The two waifs, Bottles and Rags, were pushed forward until they stood in front of the before his honor. me what's this Little ones, what are yon doing asked the kind faced judge, beaming down upon the pair, through a set of gold bowed glasses. Bottles knew it was not proper for him to speak, and Rugs could not what is the charge against this asked the policeman who had made the arrest. a purse, that is a sir, mind, my little man; your turn will come. Let the party who made the complaint stand forward. A tall man, clad in clerical garments, with long drawn visage, stepped for- ward. The corners of his trap like month were drawn down In a most solemn expression. He clasped his hands in front of him, and turned his eyes upon the little waifs, as though even their presence was unholy to his cloth. uttered the judge. Abraham Bottles could hardly hold in the titter, which, notwithstanding the solemnity of the occasion, was ready to bubble from his lips. arc a minister, are you The reverend gentlemen bowed. you may state your case in as few words as sir. Day before yesterday after- noon, I purchased a ring for my daughter. I put the ring into my purse, and walked down to India wharf upon business. Upon returning to my hotel I found that my purse was gone. I retraced my steps; bat to no avail; I could not find my parse. Yesterday afternoon at dinner in the hotel where I was stopping I saw the ring upon the finger of this girl. I recognized the ring, and knew at once that she must know of the parse. I left the dining room, found an officer had him make the arrest. The girl picked my of that, Mr. asked his honor. must have done so. I certainly could not have lost responded the reverend gentleman. the purse and ring found upon the person of the asked the judge of the officer. ring was upon the girl's finger, the purse in the boy's case. Now, my little man, tell your you please, sir, I'm only a boy, rough and all that, sir. I swear sum- times yon wouldn't believe me. She'll tell you all it. You see, she's only a little girl what got no friend in the world Bottles Bottles is me, sir. Rags is her name. She never swears never picked his pockets. I know that, I'm her father, you Bottles had found his tongue and he de- livered the foregoing in a straightforward way, which made the judge smile good Rags, tell it all. Don't be The gospel sharp can't hurt whispered Bottles to the trembling girl by his side. With frequent sobs and choking Hags told her story, which you already know. She also told how good Bottles had been to her; how he had often gone without anything to eat so that she should have food. In all, she gave a faith- picture of the peculiar life which surrounded the pair. THE CHOICE. THIS OLD it the court knows I paid for all that comes to this table in the way of grub. I own all, but them dishes, spoons, forks and and hold I'll go put a flea in this feller's, ear who sold me the Bottles root and went to the cashier's desk. A expression came upon his face as the boy spoke to him. Then he reached down under the desk and handed out a paper sack. The boy's face was wreathed with smiles when he back. all right. Rags. I told him as how I reckoned we'd have to make this last till next also that we wasn't bloated bankers and had bard grub. He give me has, and said I could take all that we couldn't eat it I should smile. Here's two Jam t, SHALL IT BE, JOHN, WHICH SHALL IT BET I LOOKED AT AND JOHN AT A COUNTRY THANKSGIVING. Is borne. The bins an full. The are running o'er; Both and fruits we've cornered in Till we're no space for more. We've worked and tolled through heat and cold. To plant, to sow, to And now for All this bounteous store Let us Thanksgiving keep. The nuts have ripened on the trees, The golden pumpkins round Have to our Industry Their wealth from out the ground. The cattle lowing In the fields. The horses in their stalls. The sheep and fowls all gave increase, i I our very walls Are bending out with Rod's good gifts. And now the day is here When we should show the Giver that We hold those mercies dear. take our lives, our joys, our wealth, every day; If we deserve or we do not. The sun it shines alway. a So In this life of daily toil. That leaves short time to pray, With brimming hearts all humbly One true Thanksgiving Day. And if there be some sorrowing ones, Less favored than are, A generous gift to them, I think, la just as good as prayer. THE THANKSGIVING. wanting in display. Some families had brought a few household relics from their homes, and these were set to do honor to the day of rejoicing. The dinner over, the pilgrims turned to the homes they had left. As the day closed and darkness came creeping In from the pine woods around Plymouth, the settlers trod once more, in fancy, the green lanes of England or the busy streets of Leyden. They sang the psalms and songs that had been sung around their English firesides, and mingled memories Of tie past with thankfulness for the pres- and hope for the future. Hark An Indian shout followed by a challenge from one of the guard. A sharp rattle of a drum, and every man grasped his and rushed out in alarm. Nearly a hundred savages were pouring into the village with shouts and cries. But there was no occasion for alarm. It was his braves coming in to thank the white men for their assistance and to share their ties. They brought with them five deer and a good supply of other as their contribution to the feast. So the feasting was con- another day. By daybreak the were again set going and the work of roasting, broiling and boiling was re- This time venison was added to the turkey. While the feast was preparing the In- performed their dances, startling the white men and frightening the young folks and women with their wild yells and fierce gestures. When they rested Capt Standish ordered out his soldiers full armor and put them through their exercises, winding up with the dis- charge of a volley from their muskets, and a salute from the great cannon on the hill top and the little cannon before the governor's door. The crash of the mus- and the roar of the ordnance the savages, and they begged the that he would not again, lest he should kill them all. On the third day the feasting was re- the Indian hunters going out before daybreak and returning early with game for the day's feast. A council fire was built, and around it speeches were made new pledges of friendship ex- changed. Then, with great ceremony, took leave of the governor, his the great captain, the other chief men of the town. Standish, with the troop of musketeers, the In- a short distance from the settlement and gave them a parting salute. Thus, with prayer and feasting, with godly psalms and Indian dances, with joyous songs, rowing artillery and Eng- shouts mingling cheerily with Indian whoops, was celebrated the first New England Thanksgiving. H. Maria George In Magazine. A BRAKEMAN'S THANKSGIVING. sured of her truth, and after she had ceased, he evident that the girl has told what is true. Is there any one in the room ac- with the A sleek, fat, jolly looking man stepped forward and know them, honor. I keep a butcher shop down in South street A newsboy came and told me last night that Bottles and Rags had been arrested. Your honor, I stand here to say, from the bot- tom of my heart, that I know both of them to be honest, square and upright They are unfortunate children of the street who make an honest living. I hope your honor won't be hard on the two poor little are both discharged. Mr. Clear- starch, yon will get your purse and ring of the clerk. One thing not find the whole amount The cashier of the Craw- ford restaurant just sent ma a note, tell- how the two little unfortunates en- joyed their Thanksgiving dinner at his place yesterday. Of course, having re- covered your property, you will willingly donate that dinner for charity's sake. The Rev. Abraham got his purse and ring, and want en his way. And Bottles and Rags In a kindly stranger who had been present a friend in whom philanthropy was oped. The pair are, this day of Thanks- giving, eating n noble dinner at a home la one of our great western states. At lost the two waifs, Beatles Rags, are safely harbored from the sterner S. la How It Wan Observed by Dinette of Governor Bradford. The Pilgrim Fathers landed at Ply- mouth, as we all know, on Monday, Dee. Under favorable auspices the first vest was gathered. With hearts of joy they secured the bountiful crop of Indian corn which had ripened in the fierce heats of August and the warm haze of As they looked on the heaped up. first fruits of their toil in the new hearts swelled with thankfulness that the Lord bad so fully eared for them, and that, though sorely smitten with pestilence, they were now blessed with health, peace and free- from the dread of famine. Mindful of the Providence to whom those blessings were due stern, bold men were very Governor Bradford proclaimed a solemn feast, and ordered that preparations should be made for celebrating it with such festivities as were in their power. Four men were dispatched into the woods to shoot wild fowl, and though the game had been scanty throughout the summer, the quartet of returned at night staggering under their burden of turkeys, geese pigeons sufficient to provision the entire settlement for a whole week. There was rare labor done by the good Puritan dames, plucking and dressing the game, pounding corn and baking it, get- ting out and polishing the tin and pewter table services brought from England and Holland, and scrubbing the wooden trenchers that served the poorer pilgrims In lieu of tin or pewter. The roar of one of the great guns on the hill top announced the commencement of Thanksgiving. It was Oct. a little less than one year n f tor their rival In Cape Cod bay. In the different dwellings and over lit in the open air began the work of roasting and boiling. When all had assembled the sergeant stepped forward, and the men, three abreast with firearms shouldered, marched orderly and silently toward the meeting house. Behind came Governor Bradford in his long robe of office, walk- gravely, as befitted n governor. On his right hand walked the venerable Brewster in his preacher's cloak, bear- The judge was as- the Bible reverently in his hands. On we have any Thanksgiving at our replied the echoing an engineer's Inquiry. I should say we did. I had a lay off that day. The night before came near mo off for- ever, too. Didn't you hear about that Funniest thing that ever happened on the As I was coming in on the last section of I having the rear end, I went up ahead to speak to the conductor, who was on the engine. It was as dark as a stack of black cats before the moon rose. As I was going back I slipped on a broken foot board right at the end of one of those infernal refrigerator cars, and fell. I couldn't see a hand be- fore me, but I knew I was going down. I clutched for the hand rail, but failed to reach it, lost my balance, and went down between the ears, breaking my fall by a one hand grasp on the brake rod. I knew what that meant It came over mo like a flash. It was death, I knew it. My first thought was of my wife and what a dinner they would have with the turkey the superintendent had sent us, and me in the little front room all cold. I can't tell you all I thought in that second, and I wouldn't if I could. It was awful. I can remember striking the ground. I struck on my feet, my efforts to grasp the hand rail and my half grip on the brake rod having started my feet down first. The horror of that shock. Quicker than you can wink the thought ran through my brain that in the next instant I would lie crushed by the wheels of the cars behind me. But I wasn't. I fell headlong on the ground and rolled over and over, bruised and stunned, but conscious. I couldn't realize why the other cars didn't run over me. I waited for them, second by second. It seemed hours. Soon I roused, scrambled to my feet, found that there were no cars after me. The train had broken in two and I had fallen off the rear end. One of my arms was terribly sprained, also my left ankle, and I was bruised a good deal, but I could walk. There was my lantern by me. Just then I remembered that the through express was following our section, and that there was one on the ca- to flag it. I hobbled, almost crawled, back about three-quarters of a mile found our missing cars standing In a curve and a cut where the express surely have telescoped and got there just in time to signal the express and stop it. Next day I was able to sit in bed and eat turkey and receive the superintendent, who called to say that I should be promoted the first of the the governor's left was the military chief of the colony, Miles Standish, his heavy armor laid aside for a short cloak, his trusty sword at his side, and a small cane In his hand as a mark of office. Proudly he watched the Arm tread, sturdy frames and serviceable weapons of the little troop before him, and was half regretful that among the subjects for the day's thanks- giving was the blessing of peace with all the tribes them. It was also a pity so many good muskets should be used only in shooting wild fowl, so doubtless ha thought; for the sturdy little captain was, as he had said, a man of war, half of whose thirty-seven years had been spent In knocking about the world as a soldier of fortune. The sermon of Elder Brewster was to the occasion. Never was he known to preach a better discourse or a shorter one, though it would lie thought long enough now, particularly If the steam of roasting the nostrils of preacher and con- as It did them. It was a Thanksgiving dinner, and no mistake about It -TO be sure the tables were of the rudest, and there was not much display, nor were there the many little delicacies that can often be found now on Thanksgiving tables. the turkey was there In all his glory of browned skin, rich gravies and palatable stuffing, and so were a number of other birds, great and small, roasted and boiled and baked over the embers. There was earn bread and hominy and puddings, and several little such as skillful house wives wold, make the and Humility. Once upon a time two turkeys went to roost on a tree. am the finest bird that re- marked one, complacently, nothing Is too good for So he picked out a nice, soft, springy limb at the top of the tree and went contentedly to sleep. The other one had been brought up to consider modesty a great virtue, and humbly am content sleep near our dear Mother Earth. before a who knows but that a storm may come and blow my ambitious companion to the ground, thus breaking his vain So he took a sent on the lower limb. A storm did not come, but the owner of the turkeys did, the one on the lower limb was caught, and on Thanksgiving day was eaten. comes as often from below above. The first Thanksgiving day recorded was in Leyden, Holland. Oct. 1878, because of deliverance from siege. Such observances were not unusual In Europe. The first New England Thanksgiving was held by order of Governor Bradford, at Plymouth, in 1681, they might after more special manner rejoice There were thanksgiving days in New England from nearly every year, for special purposes, In the New During the revolution lands from the observance was general, after that was confined mostly to New England, rials it